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-t. NEWSPAPER INFLUENCE. POOD-ROOM ON WHEELS CLOSED 4 THEY WERE NOT TURABIiE. ' " TUB OUTCOME IN RUSSIA. " The Russian government seems t$ hare allayed for a while the revolu tionary element. This though does not .mean that the revolution is over The people of Russia have "tasted blood" end we may look for a recurrence of the scenes of St. Petersburg. What oc curred there last Sunday is only the beginning of the political revo lution. There may be no more blood shd but we doubt this but the revolution will go on all the same We believe the autocratic rule in that empire Is over. The people have taken things in their own hands and the people will conquer. The fight is squarely on. Whether it will be a bloody or a bloodless one Is for thej party in power to say. The old regime in Russia is doomed. No one can deny that. How Is the new order of things to be established? That Is the question. Must the people attain It "with the blood of thousands as did the French populace or will the gov eminent grant it before it is forced to the wall? The next question Is what effect will a revolution in Russia have on the balance of the world? The indl cations already are that Great Britain welcomes a new order of things In that empire. The close relationship of rulers amounts to little when it comes to the adjustment of interna tional relations. PROVIDE FOR THE UNFOR TUNATES. Before a single dollar i$ appropriat ed for any other cause, enough money should be appropriated to take every insane person out of Jail and make en -taln that no more shall be incarcerated. Everything else is of secondary impor tance. News and Observer. We hope the legislature will take the above sound and sensible advice of Thp News and Observer. The unfortunate and afflicted people among us should ne looked after by the law-making body cf the state. Providing for these people is not a. work of charity. It s a Christian duty. Their wants should be looked after. They have a right to de mand it of the state. It is a disgrace that there should be so many insane confined in our jails and held in res stramt at their homes where they can not receive proper care and medical treatment. Two classes of our citizens cry aloud to the state for aid and protection those affected by loss of mental faculties and some of the. physi cal senses and the infirm' veterans of the war between the states. The- first duty of our legislators is to provide for the care and comfort of these people As we eald above 'they are not objects of charity. They do not seek this akl of the state as a gift. It is a duty the states owes to them to -provide for their wants and 'to give them comforta ble homes. This legislation should come before any provision for public buildings or statues and memorials to any - of our distinguished dead. We want to see the state erect a monumont to the memory of our distinguished 'Ransom but if there is to be a choice between this monument and the erec tion of additional state buildings on i?e one hand and on the other ample pro vision for the care ?f the afflicted and the aged Confederate veterans among us we say let the former matters wait. DOES NOT APPLY TO MILES. Provision in Army Appropriation Bill! Modified The Measure Then Pass etl by the Senate. Washington, January 26. The Sen ate today passed the army appropria tion bill after modifying the provision concerning the assignment of retired; army officers to active service with militia organzations. The effect of the change is to relieve General Miles from its application. While, the bill was under discussion, Mr. Gallingerj and other Senators criticised the amendment regulating the sale of, army transports, claiming that the use of government vessels had the ef fect of forcing unfair competition up on the owners of private vessels. Mr. Hale also found opportunity to con demn the operation of the general staff system in the army. He said he would oppose any effort to establish a similar system in the navy. The Senate adjourned until tomor row. IT WILL KEEP It is not always necessary to use a whole bottle of Scott's Emulsion. What is left will keep. We have seen a bottle of our Emulsion three years ..old that is still good. What other prepara tion of cod liver oil will keep sweet and permanent for half that length of time ? . Scott's Jimulsion is always reliable because it's always absolute pure. ; r . We'll send yoa a sample free. SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Tearl Street, New York Well, just as other prohibition com munities like Greensboro and Durham, which are suffering 'from : the sale of liquor in the drug stores, were looking to the Charlotte idea of confining such sale to a medical dispensary, for medi cal purposes only, the plan was given up in Charlotte because of the attack upon this temperance measure by a sa loon newspaper. But the price paid for that victory was the loss of respect of every other editor intelligent enougn to understand argument, ror the editor reasoned that a dispensary for medical purposes only was some way worse for the prohibition cause than a dozen dispensaries, called drug stores. There are some triumphs for which too heavy a. price is paid. Presbyterian Stan dard. We do not know to what editor the Charlotte paper above quoted marks with Christian4ike and charitable reference, but it seems that the paper referred to if it has lost die respect of every other "editor Intelligent enough to undrstand argument" had still a good deal of influence in Mecklenburg county enough to carry its point and head off the drug store dispensary prop osition. That Influence must have been among the most Intelligent voters of the city. The marriage question in its sev eral bearings seems to be a great puzzle- to the legislature. This comes from the attempt to break loose from old bearings. The7 safest rule is to stick by the old landmarks. Mr. Jerome in New York Is hot after the gamblers. He has caused some to close their places of business and a great many others to change their countersign. The best thing the present state legislature could do would be to abolish the fake principle of legisla tive courtesy. John Sharp Williams roped the democrats in at the caucus the other night. " A sensational rumor caused an unusually large number to attend, thinking there was going to be raised the question of Mr. Williams resig nation of the party leadership. But instead they were called upon to en dorse the proposition of the, republi can president to enlarge the powers of the inter-state commerce commis sion. It did so and most sensibly and correctly did it act. The Cigarette Habit. A man who has never drank liquor is unable to understand why others drink to excess; why, if they get one drink, they want more and more drink as long as they can hold ay. It is the same way about cigarettes. Even men addicted to smoking cigars or a pipe never have been able to understand why a boy once he gets at the practice, cannot stop. The habit is on a par with liquor drinking, if it is not actually worse. In recent years another thing is being charged up against their use that it leads to a criminal life. Probate Officer W. C. Johnson, of Kansas City, addressing an audience of several hun dred boys in that city, said cigarettes caused nearly all the downfalls among youths. "Out of 450 boys who have been ta ken into the Juvenile Court," said Mr. Johnson, "95 per cent, were cigarette smokers. I never say a boy who played hookey from school who did not also smoke cirgarettes. This habit is the beginning of crime. "I know a little one on the West Side who lies on the bed for two and three hours at a time smoking cigarettes. He has become addicted to the habit and says he cannot stop it. He will be sent to a reform school, where he can't get the poisonous things. "Two boys were caught stealing in a store not long ago. Each was a cigar ette smoker. In nearly every case where a boy breaks into a store the first thing he steals is tobacco. , "The injury of cigarette smoking to a boy is not merely physical, usually leads him into bad associations that pervert his ideas of manliness. "A gang of boys secretly smoking cigarettes submit to the leadership of the toughest in the gang. There is a magic power in the practice to lower all to the level of the lowest. "The boy who thinks it is manly to smoke has a wrong notion of manliness. He is training himself to admire and emulate man's vices instead of his vir tues. He is cultivating the qualities that count for failure instead of suc cess." And yel with all our strides toward moralitywe go along and never try to suppess the sale of cigarettes. That the habit of smoking them is growing at an alarming rate cannot be refuted. It is safe to say that not one parent in a dozen in this town, whose boys are smoking them, know or even suspect it. Of course they will find it out in time, but it will then be too late. -Greensboro Record. M'CUE MUST HANG. Court of Appeals Refuses a Rehear ing in His Case. Richmond, Va., January 26. The Su preme court of Appeals has denied the supplementary appeal in the case of ex-Mayor McCue of Charlottesville, convicted of wife murder. He was sen tenced to be hanged January 20, and was respited by Governor Montague un til February 10th. Charlottesville, Va., January 25. J. Samuel McCue, was informed In his cell today by the Associated press cor respondent that the pour t of Appeals of Virginia had refused a rehearing In his case. He took the news calmly for a few minutes and then saying "I will get justice above" burst into tears. He. gave way to uncontrollable grief for five minutes. , - Shifted Between Counties by a Switch Engine, It Yielded a Fortune. 'Because one man elected by the peo ple to enforce the law had the courage and ability to execute his duties, the (Madison poolroom, that 'famous gamb ling resort, one of the sources of three great fortunes, has been forced but of existence. For many yeirs the owners and operators of the poolroom at Mad ison, 111., just across the river from St. Louis, defied or evaded, the law. For a time so vigorous were the efforts made to drive the poolroom out of bus ness it was found necessary to put the building on great trucks and ,kep a freight switch engine standing near at all times. When, therefore, the sheriff of Mad ison county decided to raid the pool room the tip was quietly passed to the manager of the room, the switch en gine was quickly attached to the build ing and it was soon pulled a few yards over the line into St. Clair coun ty. The sheriff of Madison county, under such circumstances, would find the resort always out of his jurisdiction when he arrived. Likewise, when the' sheriff of St. Clair county got his ma chinery into working order and started to raid the poolroom the building was quietly drawn back over the line into the other county. For some reason the two sheriffs never attempted concerted action. Citizens of Madison finally gave up the fight to drive the poolroom out of existence. The Cella-Adler-Tilles syndicate, which controls the race tracks of St. Louis, continued to oper ate the resort year after year, to their exceeding profit, piling up one fortune after another until this winte. Recently the people of Madison coun ty, having elected Frank Gilliam, an earnest young reformer, to be State Attorney, took heart again and started in to drive out the gamblers. Mr. Gil ham made a study of the situation and discovered the poolroom to ibe on tho property of the Illinois Central Rail road. He accordingly served notice on the road that a disorderly and illegal resort was being conducted on its prop erty and that the railroad would be held responsible for the continuation of the poolroom. Within three lays the place was closed. But iMr. Gillham was riot satisfied. He wanted the build ing torn down and all possibility of gambling operations being resumed eliminated forever. Accordingly a force of men employed by the railroad razed the building and removed from the site every scrap of timber. The (poolroom passed out of existence am?d the rejoicing of hundreds of men and women, who stood around in the bitter cold and cheered as the workmen tors down the roof and walls of the place that for years had sheltered the most arrogant and unscrupulous lot of gamblers within the two states of Mis souri and Illinois. Then! thanksgiving services were held in every church in (Madison. Cincinnati Enquirer. OLD-TIME RACE-TRACK SHARP. How Dave Smith and His Running Horses Worked Kansas Sports. A decrepit old man living on the out skirts of Salina in a rickety old wagon and living on the bounty of generous citizens recalls to Judge Dan WagstafC a time when this old man was a noted race horse sharper. His name is Dave 'Smiths Many years ago he possessed a running horse known as Buckshot, which could beat anything in Kansas in a quarter dash. His game was to drift into a town with Buckshot hitched to a ifcumble down wagon. Then he would sift around among the horsemen and after a drink or two would gently intimate that he had a "hoss". which could go some. His innocent country way never failed to impress the sports with the idea that ithey had caught a sucker. And it was an impression that was not removed until Smith departed a day or two later with all the. loose cash in town. One time many years ago Smith pok ed into Alton ison with his ramshackle outfit. In some manner the sports got wind of the fact that old man's horse was .the famous Buckshot. They ithought they saw a way to do the old man up for all his possessions, inas much as he always employed a local rider to ride his racer. Their game was to get a rider up on Buckshot who would pull, him They succeeded only too easy. The old man accepted the rider who offered hia services without the slightest hesitation. FurthermoT3 he bet the Atchison spots to a stand still, putting up money on Buckshot until no more was to be had. The horses were called to the post. They were to go from a standing start, or a "held start," as the fellows used to call it. The old man ambied out to the track with Buckshot, rider up, and too his station ready for the word "go." And just as the word was given he jerked a snay loose and the bit droppsl from Buckshot's mouth leaving the rider with nothin' to pull on. Then he fetched Buckshot a clip with a quirt,' and the old horse went down the track like a greased streak of lightning and loped home an easy winner Salina Re publican. MURDER AT MAXTOX. A Stranger Shoots a Negro, Who Died in a Few Hours. (Special to The Messenger.) Maxton, N. C, January 26. Jim , Mitchell, a negro boy about 17 years old, was killed here last night in the store of Enoch Burns under peculiar circumstances, as at this writing evi dence is very hard to get. Ernest Burns, son of Mr. Enoch Burns, says that about 9 o'clock the negro, Jim Mitchell, came into the store and called for some cigarettes. Just about this time a, well dressed white man came in and asked for something. The negro took offense at his waiting on the white man first and said something offensive. The stranger drew his pistol and shot the negro and left immediately. The negro was struck in the middle of the forehead and died In a few hours. ' Warrants are out this morning for the arrest of J Ernest Burns and Henry Smith, the j two whte boys in the store at the time of the occurrence. ? ; . .. Take Hollisters Rocky, Mountain Tea. See it exterminate the poison, feel It revitalise the blood and bring back that happy, joyous feeling of, bygone days. 35 cents- Tea op Tafciets. R. R. Bel lamy. ' The Objections to 'Possums liaised in ' Georgia When Imported to : New York. (From the Pitfcsubrg Dispatch.) James A'. Ashley, a candidate fir. Congress on the Republican ticket in Georgia, is in New York. He own 10, 000. acres of mountain lands among the moonshine mountains of northwes tern Georgia, where snakes are plenti ful and bears are unknown. When he came north he brought as pets for two little nieces near New York a pair of 'possums. He had much trouble trans porting them in a gripsack, because the animals got loose in the Pullman car several times. They'd swing on the bell rope and stop the train. They'd get cn the lever of the automatic brake and put the mechanism out off business. However, he got them here. Yesterday he visited his sister's fam ily and asked one of the little nieces about the strange (pets. "They are vry interesting," said the ten year old girl, "but they are net durable." Durabl?" repeated Ashley in amazement. "Yes; they're all to pieces. We put them In the yard and, somehow, every cat within a half mile took offense at tbe 'possums. The cats came liere in crowds. Oh. the Georgia 'possumi stood their ground all right. But one of 'em hasn't any tail; the other has l03t an eye, most of an ear and all tbe hair on his back. They are wearing out as playthings. They're like most of the other Christmas toys we received. Next time bring us one of those beau tiful king snakes that you say can lick a rattler. That's what we want some thin durable; don't you understand?" FREIGHT TRAN WRECK. Breakdown Causes Delay in Trains Telephone Franchise Granted Su perior Court Convenes. (Special to The Messenger.) !Goldsboro, X. C, January 26. There was a slight break down on a through freight this morning near Selma which delayed the trains coming Into this city for several hours. In tact the train due to bring the Raleigh papers here at 7:20 o'clock did not get here until the afternoon. The full extent of the dam age could not be learned here, but il was stated that no one was Injured. Judge Walter H. Neal arrived in the city last night and . formally opened the session of the Superior court, which should have convened last (Monday, but which was postponed on account of the illness of the wife of Judge NeaL The little boy who drew the names of the grandjury from the box was made happy by the judge who drdered the sheriff to give the little fellow one dol lar, and instructed the youth to keep the money until next Christmas, and buy whatever he wished. The charge of his honor to the grand jury was one. of the most positive and impressive ever in the court hou3e in this city. 'He expressed his estimate of the jury system and said it was the highest achievement of human intelligence. At a special meeting of ihe board o? aldermen held in the city last night, a franchise was granted to the Carolina Telegraph and Telephone Company to operate a long distance exchange in this city. There was considerable discussion tefore the board granted the franchise and the proper restriction3 were thrown around it. Goldsboro has had trouble with two telephone companies which were operated here at one time and tae board did not intend to have the trou ble repeated. It is understood that the company that secured the franchise last night will have, lines extending all over the eastern part of the state. Stomaclhi No appetite, loss of strength, nervousness, headache, constipation, bad breath, general debility, sour ris ings, and catarrh of the stomach are all due to indigestion. Kodol cures'' indigestion. This new discovery repre sents the natural juices of . digestion as they exist in a healthy stomach, combined with the greatest known tonic and reconstructive properties. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure does not only euro in digestion and dyspepsia, but this famous remedy cures all stomach troubles by cleansing, purifying, sweetening and strengthening the mucous membranes lining the stomach. DIGESTS WHAT YOU EAT Gives Healtb to tbe Side and Strength to tn WmIc "fes on. $1.00 Size boldo 2X tnm tho trial size, which sella for 50c Prepared fcy B. C. DeWitt & Co.. Cfcicsxo- For Sale by R. R. Bellamy. IFIohiipS Mmi?2 VM. TELL Patent Flour R0YALL MINER'S PICK To Atrive . We also have a full line or Xmas Goods. " Send us your orders or -write for quotations. 7 S. P. IIcIIiLIE f "" 1 " " in ,w A vv h -'fir i rf" -v . ' ?. WT-VT V , u tr:w .tZjL '--f A&getabk Prcparaliorifor As similating CfcFoodandBcufci ling tttcStocacte aadBawcten h4 Promotes DtshoaChccrfu nessandRestContains neiiter Opiumforphinc rtorlSiteral. Tot Narcotic. fmJtM Seed' JtxJmuut ft Aperfecl Remedy forCons'Jfvi Tlon, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions .Feverish ncss and Loss OF SLEEP. Fac Sinulc Signature of NEW YORK. situ. Hi c mn exact c-py or 'R;.-rr:". i 1 fj 0 6 More Days of GAYLORD Big nventory Specials for 54 -Inch Black Taffeta Silk, $1.25 kind; this sale 9Sc in,000 yards of 6c. colored liawns. pretty patterns; tkls sale.. ..4 l-2c. Only 10 yards to customer. GEO. 0. GAYLO W, 206-208-210 FRONT STREET. AGENT FOR Cr ossett Shoes for Men, and McCali's Patterns, Avery's "Pluto" Disc Plows Will scour and turn perfectly any ,H. Tlicydo tic work' and do it rteht Come to see us or write for uhat you tvaut In the Implement Ihit bor Saving Implements our specialty. 1 t,uie. Latoor m. JTACOM MAItoWAKE '-CO, 10 and 12 South Front Street. Tot Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature ft Use For Over Thirty Years iirM 1 xx v v ILK 1 fiu 0 m m t"H r "HiHf, NCW TOUR CITY. this Week: This sale we are presenting a list of barjralns unparalleled In tho his tory of Iry Goods and Notion buying in Wilmington. The price on each article makes It a bargain worthy of your consideration. Be sure and visit our stores the last days of thl big sale. The Place thai Savo Vm, Mn, IT'S All OUTRAGE to use poor meats when you can get the best cuts at, Rhodes & H In tie's for what you have been paying fr ln wicfc we are never careless of our customers' Interests, and always , ....,,,, vuf yvi ami I'VUliry Sale. that Is obtainable. Try us and con vince yourself. We have Turkeys. Rhodes & nmnt r- -
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