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it 4rel the PoatofSee at Wil mington, N. C, Second-Clm-tfnttr. April 18. 187;. TRKMS OF SUBSCniPTlON. IMltTAGB PREPAID. run DULY MESSEXGEIl b uimlJ 0M9 rrar ftf.OOj tx tnontb 3.00f tare months $iJH one moatfc BO rved In tie city at 60 ent a arat-b, one week 15 cent. flM for tr utb or f6.W a year. THK 15 NI-WKCKLY MESSBSuEH itwo -pae papers), by mall ane rnr Sl.oos mix month CO eenta, In advance. Friday, October 27, 1905 TtEVOIXTTIOX IX MARKETING CX3TTOXCI101'. The Lumberton Argus says: "Hur rah for ten cent cotton." Bless youi sympathetic soul, brother, we have gone near beyond those figures. Our farmers pay no attention to bids 01 ten cents now. They are holding for a cent' a pound more and if they will just "keep a stiff upper lip" they wi.i get it. They have got the trump carls All they have to do is to play them to h best advantage. The Charlotte Chronicle tells us of one of this kind He brought his cotton to market, was offered 10.05 for it, but refused to sell, saying he was pledged to his farmer associates to hold for eleven cents and. so, hauled his cotton back home If all the farmers would be as con scientious and as loyal to their asso ciation as this one you would so.n: see the price jump to eleven cents and perhaps higher. Within the last twelve months the southern farmer has learned how to market his cotton and the banks ami other financial interests of the soith have come to his aid. The latter find that it is to their interest to help the farmer hold his cotton for higher price rather than to have the crop forced oa the market and sold at a sacrifice price to the middle man and speculator to be held until he can squeeze a big profit out ot the manufacturers. The cotton planter and the banker of the south are working together for mutual benefit in this matter in a way that they have never done before. Mil lions of money would have been saved to the south could this condition have been brought about a few years ago No doubt it would have been done had the banks been in condition to act as they now are doing towar.l the farmers, but never before hive tbay been in position to come -to the aid of the farmers to the extent mat thev now find themselves They have the money now. They do not hae to borrow it from New York, as for merly, .to be usea m moving the crop Underlie old system the crop had to be rushed to market vi older that the local banks could get :n the monsy with which to take up itwir loans mid' at the north. This system has passed away, thanks to the better conditions at tLe south, and cur banks are able iu use their own resources in aMmg the tarmers. instead of relying on mon ey secured on short-time loans from the northern financial centers. Th!; revolution in the manner of marketing means large profits to our southern ba.ik and increase to the farmers in the net proceeds or the cotton crop. The profits now stay at home instead of "go?ng to the north to pay for tlw money, used in moving the crop. PROPOSED CHANGE OF SCHED ULE. We understand there is a movement on foot among the Seaboard Air Line! officiaisto change the schedule of ihe trains between this city and Ham'et whereby the train which now leaves here at 7 o'clock a. m. will have its! starting time placed an hour later and the train arriving at 8:50 p. xn.j will set in about two hours earlier. The railway authorities have issued a circular letter to its agents along the line between Wilmington and Hamlet Instructing them to secure the views of the leading citizens along the route regarding the proposed change. . W hope the parties consulted will earnestly oppose such change. We1 should think it would be to their in terest to have the schedule remain as it is. The present schedule is far more, eatisfactory to the business men of Wilmington than would be the pro posed one. It certainly suits the news papers of this city better. The change would simply delay for one hour thej departure of the morning papers and would cause them to miss some of the rural free delivery routes and taereby force their detention at points along .the road until the next day. It wouldj be the same with business letters from parties In this city to persons! on these free delivery routes. Thl3 change would cause great delay andi inconvenience in the transaction of bus-J Iness between merchants of our city and their customers on these rural mail routes. ' The present schedule' Is a very con venient one. Business men from our citv, by taking the 7 o'clock train and utilizing the two midday trains, can take in several points along the rail road and return to the city by 3:b0 o'clock in the evenings If this change is made the time will be so shortened that our city commer cial men will be greatly hampered in their work up the Carolina Central. We. hope the people along the Hi 3 of the road whose opinions have been sought will see the matter in this light and will take strong stana against this proposed change? We also hope the railway authorities will con sult the convenience and interests of the newspapers and of the business men of our city and also their patron3 and customers along the railway and the rural, free delivery mail routes which branch off from the towns along the line of the road. If this Is done we believe the schedule will be allowed to remain as it is. The proposed change would work the same inconvenience to the people along the railroad or rural mail routes who have busineis with Wilmington as it would to the business men of our city. In this matter their interests are identical. THAT DUPLIN COUNTY CASE. Governor Glenn has notified th? sheriff of Duplin county that If it Is thought necessary he will order a spe cial term of court to try the negro fiend who attempted criminal assault on the little white girl , near Wallace Sunday. The great pity about this ne gro's case is that the law limits he punishment in such cases to a max imum of fifteen years in the peniten tiary. There can be no doubt about this man's guilt. In such cases as this the penalty should be death. Such a fiend should not be allowed to live In Virginia the penalty for such a crime is death and it should be the came in this state. Those people ,ot Duplin county who had the opportuni ty to liang this brute but who, instead, secreted him until the sheriff could spirit him out of the county showed great firmness and a law-abiding spirit not usual in men under such circum stances. . John Charles McNeill deserves an other trophy for the chaste language in which be accepted the Patterson cup at the hands of President Roosevelt. His speech of acceptance was: "Mr. President, my joy in this gold en trophy is heightened by the fortune which permits me to take it ?rom the hand of the foremost citizen of the world. To you sir. to Mrs. Lindsay Patterson, our gracious raairou of Kt ters. and to the committee of scholars whose .iudsrment was kind to me. all thanks." The Pennsylvania railroad has just placed an order for new rolling stock to cost forty million dollars. This in cludes thirty thousand, three hundred freight cars and five hundred locomo tives This is necessitated by the in crease of freight traffic over that sys tem, which is an index of the in creased prosperity of the country. Railways do not increase their carrying capacity unless there is a demand for it. That demand comes from the pub lic's enlarged capacity to buy and to ship goods. We are glad the city authorities have withdrawn the quarantine. All dan ger is over now and there was no rea son for keeping up the extra expense of fifteen or twenty dollars a day. So long as there was a possibility of yel low fever being brought into the etiy unless there was a strict quarantine we were in favor of sparing no ex pense in the efforts to keep it out. We think the city officials deserve the thanks of the general public for the ef ficient quarantine service maintained while there was danger as well as for the prompt raising of the embargo of passenger travel on the railways as soon as there was no longer any neces sity for it. Do the people of Wilmington know that we have one of the promptest and most efficient fire departments of any city of our size in the United States? It is a fact We do not rely upon our own judgment for this opinion but upon that of others who have lived in other cities of equal and even greater population and who have had occasion from personal experience to make com parison between our department and those elsewhere as to promptness in getting to fires and effectual work af ter arrival on the scene. These railway and corporation sen ators are beginning to think that Mr. Roosevelt is in earnest about federal supervision of inter-state railway rates. Many of them would be glad if he had not made his southern tour. ! That Raleigh speech almost took their breath away. They have come to re alize that they have no child's play be fore them during the coming Session cf congress. " :. : It is impossible to have a clear head an active brain. a, vigorous constitu tion or a strong body when the diges tion is weak or when the stomach is out of order. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure will put the stomach and digestive orv gans in good condition and improv i the general condition. R. R. Bellamy The last number of The Financier is a very handsome publication. It con tains nearly three hundred pages and lias many handsome illustrations ot prominent bank , buildings with their interiors and portraits of leading bank ers and financier of the country. Among its leading features is a steno graphic report of the "recent annual convention of the American Bankers Association. The publication in gotten up in handsome style with a cover in gold and embossed. Thing are warming up over the campaign in New York city. It looks like Hearst is going to give somebody a pretty good run, and, then, Osborne is making it hot for Jerome. The im pression seems to be gaining ground that Ivins is a mere figurehead for the purpose of drawing votes from Hearst in order to insure the election of Me Clellan. President Roosevelt has undertaken the difficult job of making Castro do the amende honorable to France. We are afraid this "vill be more difficult than bringing about peace between Russia aud Japan or modifying the rules of foot balL Wouldn't you like to know exactly what Senator Foraker thinks of Secre tary Taft's railway rate speech made in Ohio last Saturday night? Take "bribery" and "theft" and dress them up in a fine suit of clothes with a silk hat, seal ring and a diamond shirt stud and they become "fraft." As Others See lis. That staff correspondent of The Washington Post, who -svas here with the President's parfy-iast Thursday, wrote the fololwing to his paper: "This great gathering enabled the observer to judge North Carolinians as a typa They are peculiar and pic turesquepeople. The men are shrewd, sharpfaced, spare of build, reticent, plainly attired and with a little change of costume and cut of hair might serve as models of the commonalty ot England in the days of the Round heads. The women are not given to fashionable dress, but the number of handsome and regular features among them was remarkable. These people are sons and daughters of the soil of the Old North State, intensely devoted to their home and neighborhood. Their hospitality, which is proverbial, was extended today to the thousands of so journers from outside states with a grave and quiet courtesy that charmed the recipients." ' We hardly know whether to utter a sigh embraced in the language of the Scotch bard, or rise on our dignity and administer a rebuke to the young man who wrote the foregoing, in the nature of a lesson on good manners. As it is wre are curious to know just what we look like without the "change of costume and cut of hair" suggested. And from a parade through crowded streets and a sea of humanity crowded along, a dusty trail of a fair midway and a race track, what opportunity did the correspondent have to learn that our women "are not given to fashion able dress?" We mind the soft and easy compli ment the writer bestows in the closing part of the foregoing paragraph, and judge that it was his intention to be nice, as any guest should be. But didn't he get a remarkable view of us, in the brief-time he was here? "They are a peculiar and picturesque people," as if such qualities were only found in North Carolina! "The men are shrewd, sharp-faced, spare of build, reticent, plainly attired," etc. He must have had in mind the fakirs along the trail! Then speaking of the women, he says "the number of handsome and regular features among them was remarka ble." Might have been speaking of the horses, or the pigs in the exhibition pens at the fair. At any rate it is a "peculiar and pis turesque" compliment the correspon dent paid us, even if our hair is not cut just right to show us up as Round heads. Raleigh Post. Who are Democrats. What is this taik ' about excluding Mi. Willie Hearst from the Dein crafic caucus of the lower house of Congress this winter because he l not a Democrat and because he is running as an independent candid itc for mayor of New York? The Hague Tribunal itfjelf couid not tell who Is Democrat tnese days and who is not, and it might be that Willie could gati er around him a sufficient number o Representatives of his type of Democ racy to keep the other fellows out As for excluding him because he i running as an independent, that couI4 not well be done in view of the num ber of Democrats of-one variety and another who are applauding the "maa liness" of District Attorney Jerome to. doing that very thing. Charlotte Ob server. Potash f -fa necessary for cotton to produce highyields and good fibre. Write for our valuable books on fertilization; they contain informa tion that means dollars to the farmers. Sent free on request. , Write now while you think of it to the GERMAN KALI WORKS New York Atlanta, Ga. vJ Nassau St., or S V4 i- oa? n Bowser and " His Address He Starts One to Be Delivered at County Firs and Reads It to Mrs. B. MIXED IN HIS HISTORY Ca!I$ Daniel Webster a Soldier and Puts Robert Fulton In Congress. Copyright, 1305. by R. R McClure. A ITER dinner the other evening instead of lighting a cigar and turning to the daily paper, as was his usual custom. Mr. Bowser walked about in a nervous way, with his bands clasped behind his back, and as Mrs. Bowser took sly looks at him she saw his lips moving, as if he were talking to himself. It had be come plain after awhile that he want ed to talk with her on some subject, and she paved the way by saying: "I suppose your clubs will be meet ing again soon?" "Yes, I suppose so." "Shall you deliver any reopening ad dresses?" "Um! I can't exactly say. I wish" "Well, what do you wish?" "I wish you were a little different woman." "But how, dear?" T wish you didn't stand ready to go back on everything I wanted to do." "But I don't. If it's anything fool ish I tell you of it, but that's what a wife should do. You must admit that you sometimes take rather queer no tions." "There you go, first thing! There isn't a more level headed man in this 4 "I STEP FORWARD AND BEGIN." town, and you know it, but you are always talking about my fads and no tions." "Well, what is it this time? SI prom ise you that I won't make one single criticism." "The county fairs will soon be on, won't they?" he asked after hitching around in an uneasy manner. "Yes, of course." "And at all such fairs they have some one to deliver an address?" "Certainly." "I don't know what they pay, but it must be as much as $300. What's the matter with my dodging out and mak ing half a dozen addresses this fall? I have a reputation as a public man, haven't I?" "You you have been in the papers often enough," replied Mrs. Bowser is she shut her teeth hard to keep from smiling. "Well, then, 1 am a public man with a fine address, and what more can they ask for?" "But about the address? I don't re member that you have ever -on: posed and delivered an agricultural address." "I can do it as easy as rolling off a log," said Mr. Bowser as his face be gan to clear. "All I want is your en couragement aud here aud there a sug gestion. I had a little time this after noon and started things off. I will read what I have written, and you can tell me what you think. We will say that I have taken my place in the grand stand. That's where I will speak from, I suppose. I have been intro duced and received an ovation. As the applause dies away I step forward and begin: 'Fellow patriots, it is needless to say that this is one of the happiest moments of my life. Surrounded by'" "Please don't get mad," interrupted Mrs.,BowKcr. "but ( I don't think you ought to begin that way. That is more of a Fourth of July address. I should put it, ''Mr. President and. ladies and gentlemen. " ' "I knew you'd find fault the first thing." growled Mr. Bowser. "Br.t I'm-uot finding fault. Leave the bgicrfrg ns It i and go ahead. TIhtp isn't snch a great difference, aft er ail. between a Fourth of July ad dress and n county fa!r oration." "Cf course there isn't. That's what I figured on when I began. I now go on and say:- . nrrancded by this large and culti vated a'idience and standing here un der the most prolific mn In the world I woali not be the sian I am if I did not fe i u.y heart swelling with pride. The clash of firms no longer reaches our ears. Th? battlefields won by our fore fathers "There yon seem to run off the track again." said Mrs. Bowser. "The clssh of anas and battlefields have nothing to do with agricultural matters. "Ob, they haven't, eh? You Jnst wait a minute and don't be m ready to find fault: "'The battlefields won by our fore fathers with their valor and blood are sliL-nsjeriag in the sunshine of peace, and from thetn yon have reajcd the com and pumpkins and squashes I see oa every bauJ. From the field where George Washington drew his sword in defease of UU-rty -uce thee fat bog. From the fkM where Paul Jones laid down his life that America might be free you hate driven th! Durham bull. From thy field where Daniel Webster shout cl for freedom nn he pressed on at the head of his troops yon have gath ered the Early Hose potatoes these mai-iiiGth cs:rro:.s these " "Stop. Mr. Bowser! Stopr "Weil, what U itr -You mutt certainly change that. 1 don't want to find fault but you can't have Paul Jones fighting on land." -And hy the devil can't 1?" "Because he was a sailor a sea fighter. You have Daniel Webster at the head of his troops, but he was nev er even a soldier. You'd In? picked up in a minute on those things." "By the Lord Harry, woman," s.shl Mr. Bowser as he flushed red and white, "but are you telilug me that. I don't know as much as the average boy ten years old?" V"Xo, I'm not. I'm simply telling you at you have gjt things mised u.i. You know better, of course, but you are sometimes absentminded." "Never in this world do I get things mixed up. Never In th5s world am I absentminded. Mrs. Bowser, vou have j insulted me." 1 There was a bit of doubt in his tones J as he picked up his manuscript notes again, flourished his arm and went on: " 'When Robert Fulton arose In his , place in congress and declared that ag j riculture was the bulwark of liberty i men smiled at him, but you have only to look around you today to see what a I truism he gave us. Look at those ; thrashing machines, those steam boil , ers, those wiudmiils, those reapers and mowers ami then turn" "Mr. I;o..-c. will you let me say a vord:" int cirii.tcd Mrs. Bowser. "What is it now?" "You nro not quite right about two things in that paragraph. Robert Ful ton never urose in his seat in con " givi-s." "Rut-1 fay he did." j "I don't k e how he could, as he was never a member of that body. You ! probably meant to say Calhoun or ! Clay." "I probably didn't mean to say any- I thing of the kind. This is the third or ! fourih time you have flung Insults into my face, and I am done." "Rut you must not make such mis takes You speak of agriculture being the bulwark of liberty, and then you go on to mention nothing but manufac tures. If you make such slips as these before a crowd you will be almost hoot ed at. Now go on. We will fill in new names later on." "Madam, there will be-no going on and no filling," said Mr. Bowser with great dignity as he came out of the grand stand. " "But why?" 1 ' "Because I am no fool. I may be baldheaded, but I know when I am in sulted." "You are a strange man. I was mere ly telling you where you were wrong about names and things." "You telling me where I was wrong! Now listen to me. In half an hour I will prove that you don't know your A B C's. I'll show you that I am right and you are wrong In every criticism you have made." "Well, let it go that I am wrong. Can't we go riding on the car thJs evening?" "Don't attempt to dodge the issue, madam. You have made certain state ments. I go to disprove them. When they have been disproved, which they certainly will be, I shall suggest that our respective lawyers have a little talk." With that he made her a stiff bow and walked down the hall and out doors. He had been very deckled In his talk, but at the game time he doubt ed himself. He didn't like to go to his family druggist, but when be failed to find the butcher or the plumber in he sauntered into the drug store with a remark about the weather and finally got around to say: "Say, doc, just who and what was Daniel Webster? I may have got him mixed up with some one else." "Why. Daniel was a statesman," was the reply. "And who was Paul Jones?" "One of the greatest sea fighters America ever had." "And who who" continued Mr. Bowser, but the druggist interrupted him with; "By thunder. Bowser. -but what do yon want to keep this op so long for? Your wife knows more In a minute than you do in a day, and why not realize it?" "Sir, do you mean to insult mef "Ob. bosh!" "Sir, I can lick you In two minutes!" "Nonsense! Go home and be good." The druggist refused to go oat for a scrap, and Mr. Bowser left the place with rage boiling In his heart He was looking around for something to de stroy when a belated fakir yelled "Umbrellas to mendr at him from across the street With a blood cur dling whoop Mr. Bowser took his trait and as the two disappeared down the street in a whirl a policeman came along and mused to himself: Those looked like Bowser's coat tail3, and 111 bet he's been having an other row with his wife. Why can't he cuddle flown and behave himself T it QUAD. ! . " -N ARREST IS MAPK jr. II Waddell is tjommuicu iook Frajuent Drives" Over- Salisbury With J. C. Beard. J. E. Waddell. of CentrevtUe. Ga.. was arrested yesterday afternoon on suspicion that, if not the nrinclnal. he at least has knowledge of circum stances surrounding the brutal mur der of J. C. Beard, of Pennsyvanta, Whose DOay was aiscoverea ya?ireaT morning near Town Creek. Jack Kary. a white cabman, sta ted that on Wednesday and Thursday he drove Beard and Waddell over Salisbury together and that Beard dis played a well filled purse several times. A hat which Waddell was known to have worn was found by the dead man's side yesterday morning. In the defendant's behalf Mr. Ben Simpson testified that Waddell was drunk on Thursday nlsht. that he took him to a boardinsr house and remained with him from S o'clock in the evening until 6:30 yesterday morning. Waddell was riven a preliminary hearing before Esoulre D. M. Miller this morntnsr and sent to jail without bond, pending Mr. Miller' Judgment. CHIEF OP rOUICK IX TROUBLE Maxtons Cliief Arretted on Charge ot Assault and Battery. J The people of Maxton are much ex ; cited over the brutal treatment of ' Mr. M. A. Southerland at the hand I of Policeman J. S. Smith. It feoms that Southerland. who was under the Influence of whiskey, but In no wav helped into his dukkv to drlv? to , hss home, about three mile from town, when Smith appeared to lake onVnv at something said to him er.nn;iv and arrested Southerland. wh made a feeble effort to resist, whereupon Smith struck him on the had ?vr al times, knocklnsr him to the ur ti id and striking him once aftv hr felt, but was prevented from aoine fur ther Injun bv one of the byst. hrt. who caught the stick, whtci wja not a regulation club, but a deadly weap on. Smith was immedlvely nrreud by a state officer, and, in default of bond was takeu to LumUrto.i and lodged in Jail Saturday af.rtv n. Smith has made a very brutal cftirer. says a Maxton corresp ndeu. -ever al times before uMnsr his authority unreasonably, and the people of the town, with one voice, miv "let him suffer for it." Fayettevllle Observer. Odd Storaire for Yellow Fever Treat nicnt. The New Orleans doctors have at last taken cognizance of the cold stor age remedy for yellow fever, projwsed by Dr. Marshall, of The Gastonla fat zette. A New Orleans correspondent of The Asheville Citizen quotes Dr. Jeff Miller, a prominent New Orleans physician and sanitarian as saying that "The Gazette's plan is a decidedly ef fective one. It most undoubtedly would kill the germs, but it i also tin fortunately true that it would ITave to kill the patient tirst. As a germ killer," the "cold storage" treatment would be unexcelled, but for the slight incon venience of annihilating the patient before it could accomplish its ultimate object" We will now leave the mat ter to be fought out by lr. Miller and Dr. Marshall, that is, if there is any fight left in the Gastonia doctor Char lotte Chronicle. STOLEN ! On the 4th of October a white man hired a horse and buggy from me. He said he was an agent for a picture house and was delivering pictures in Cumberland county. He engaged the horse and buggy for two days and a half. I have not heard from him pince. The man was clean shaven, about 30 years old. weight about 150 pounds, medium height, dark complexion. The horse was heavy, dark mare, quick and easy traveler, with a white pot on forehead and scar on right forefoot between ankle and hoof. The buggy was old. open, with black body and red running gear, cloth back and leather cushion. s Reward for information that will lead to recovery of the property or apprehension of tho man, J. A. l'AMKIH, oct 17 d&w tf FayetUwille, N. C. NOTICE. Good Farm For Sale, Any one wanting a good farm con taining one hundred and -sixty (HiO) ' or more acres of land, a good two hcge farm under cultivation also a good mill seat with all of the fixtures, with good Itock and Gin fixtures, good Orchard and Vineyard, situated Ju?t two miles from Jtaeford, N. C, This is one of the best places in the coun try and well situated. There are three churches at this place Presbyterian Methodist and Baptist. For further information apply to T. L. HUKSEY. oct It sw 3t Raeford. N. C. ran it. Wc offer Genuine Liverpool Salt First cargo on this mar ket for six years. HULL h PEARSALL (INCORPORATED.)