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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-06

There is a work just issued that will
be interesting to tens of thousands in
North Carolina. 1t is a handsome vol
ume issued by Revell & Co., New York.
1t is an autobiography and a life also
Of Rev. DR.. Charles F.. Deems by his
two gifted sons. We have not read it
yet, but hope to do so, and will then
write of it. We knew the able and elo-
quent DR.. Deems from 1s47. to his death
a few a ago, end after 1s49. knew
him very intimately. We once thought
Of writing to his sons giving some inter-
esting facts we were in possession Of
concerning their father, but put it off
until too late. What we would have
written might not have been of service
in the biography but it would have in
terested them and their aged and ad-
mirable mother, n Of the "elect la
dies Of God.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-06

What will Dave Hill do with himself
now? He has no office. no chance Of
office, is "a man without a party" and
is unmarried. Where will he go? II he
will go to the republicans perhaps Mark
Hanna will give him something to do.
He might go-a-fishing with Grover.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-06

A critical Wilmingtonian says there
is much bad English in McKiniey's in
augural. The document was %platitudi-
nous commonplace and conservative.
That Is about its size.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-06
Troops Asked for ut the Executions OF wall.
ing and

Frankfort. KY. March e~.-Sherir
Plummer. Of Campbell county. who is
to hang Jackson and walling. March
goth, has asked Governor Bradley for
troops to surround the enclosure where
provides that no more than fifty people
can witness the hanging and the sher-
iY fears hat q big crowd viii come
over from Cincinnati and tear Down the
enclosure In order to see II.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-06

The blue-bird is hailed as a harb1n-
ger of Spring. It is also a reminder that
a blood-purifier is needed to prepare
the system for the facilitating weather
to come. Listen and you will hear the
birds singing: take Ayers Sarsapa-
rilla in March, April, May"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-06

We heard an educated citizen ask
Suppose Bryan had been elected in
November and had been inaugurated
with the country in the fix it is now in.
what would have happened?" Three
intelligent, university men agreed he
would have been aSsasSinated
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-06

The latest from Cuba is interesting
and encouraging. The patriots are very
active. General Garcia has defeated
the murderers killing many. Several
other fights have occurred which show
victories for the Cubans. Gomez is out
Of the way and even rumor fails to find
him.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-06

The newspapers, with the exception
OF mugwumps and boltocrat organs. are
disposed to sting Cleveland for vetping
the immigration bill.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-06

The pictures OF the Inauguration
manufactured long In advance and dis
tributed r now doing duty in the
great papers"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-06
OLLAPODIANA.

Trinity college has just issued Sc
ries 1, entitled A Annual Publication
az Historical Papers-Reconstruction
and State Biography" 1t Is published
by the Historical Society OF Trinity
college, Durham, N. c., and Is under
the supervision Of the department OF
history, of which Professor John s.
Bassett is in charge. The sketches rep
resent for the most part work done by
the upper classes Of Trinity college. 1t
Is very creditable to all concerned. The
fr~oufispiece is a finely executed por-
trait of the late lamented Professor
Edward Graham Dawes, scholar. teach
r patriot and gentleman. There Is
q paper by his fruitful pen on IA
reigh's New Fort in Virginia-l58o'-
and a we'll written sketch OF him by
Professor Bassett. There Is also a
ssketch of Rev. DR.. F. L. Hawks. the
eminent minister and author OF the
Colonial History OF North Carolina.
Both these gifted and most worthy ma
tive North C~arolinians were OF the
Episcopal churc There are eight pa
pers in all, with the addition Of book
notices by Professor Bassett. A meri-
3orfous publication that deserves 10 De
well supported. Price $1.OO.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-06

AfOretime in these columns we have
ventured the opinion that it was really
Inconsiderate and unwise to read the
very many praised novels that rush
monthly from the press, and to the
neglect of the really great novels that
have not been read. Why give hours
And days and weeks to reading books
that are ephemeral-nOt in a hun
dred will be heard Of after ten years,
while the classics are on the shelves
unopened and great literature unread?
Time is really precious. 1t takes, as we
have before said, as long to read a
second OF third or firth rate book as
TO read the best. We refer to this
again because of q remark made by
the greatest living French critic of the
last two decades, Bruneliece, who is re-
Earded generally in his own hand as
filling the high place vacated by the
celebrated Sainte-Beuve. He is a great
lover Of the foremost authors of the
past. Carlyle, the great, said it was
a good rule to read no book until it
was two years old This is wise. BY
that time it has been tested. It's living
qualities are understood. A discussion
OF him in The New York Bookman has
this:
ALTHOUGH he never said it in so
many words, it is clear hat he would
consider it no misfortune if the num-
Der Of new works were considerably
reduced. He is no ~sympathizer with
xhe craving of so many readers for
that which is new and would consider
1t a. great gain if Of the time
spent among o were spent in Sc.
riOus v with the masterpieces
OF the past; n his is the a why
after many battles against contem-
porary writer's who seemed to him
somewhat overrated and to a certain
extent dangerous, he now prefers, in
regard to a great deal a. the public
to preserve an attitude of
disdainfu1 silence"
There are nan books of the last de-
Gde that have been belauded tt a de-
gree that now appears ridiculous. One
Of the foremost essayists Of this coun-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-06

A new book-novel-is we'll praised.
1t is by Charles G.. d. Roberts and is
called The Forge in the Forest 1t
belongs to the latter-day highly ro-
mantle class to which Stimson and
Anthony Hawkins and several others
are the chief contributors. He has also
Just issued a volume Of poems entitled
THE Book of the Native" He has also
published recently "a History of am
ady, one volume. Andrew Lang's
pickle the Spy" is a noticeable book.
1t is not a novel but full of romantic
material. It is really historic. Another
work tina attracts is by a Frenchman-
It is America M h Americans
and is reported to be very witty, true
uIent and pointed and shows up the
manners, etc., of the north. Foreign
writers never find out anything of the
south. They travel with shut eyes and
sealed ears, and returning to their
country write very knowingly but very
i~gnorantly. A great novel; to be trans
lated and published DON is Huysmans'
En- Route" 1t is greatly lauded. 1t is
noticeable that in this end of the CEN
fury many great" novels appear, but
when you come to read them you are
puzzled no little to fine out where the
greatness comes in. Scott and Thack-
cray and Dickens and George Eliot and
Victor Hugo wrote great novels. Two
other books that will be read by Gull
tivated people with money are Gen-
---Y HF1Jr1,z GT 1%ko-, - TJ;~ Vy;fo1D
and Professor Dowden's Life of Percy
Bysshe Shelly" He was indeed one OF
the great poets of the last 1000 years.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-06

The next congress takes charge will
An empty treasury. with expenditure.
exceeding receipts every day.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-06

A good deal Is written now OF that
strange literary freak, the late Walt
Whitman. Books and essays and
newspaper criticisms are written con-
corning him Some are full Of praise.
middle way. He has been an anomaly
to US always. Greatly praised by many
he has been repudiated by others. We
never could see much of the exalted
genius in him hat his admirers think
they see. We will have more to say an
other time. D. v.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-06
SNAPS.

The Powers will compel Greece to
evacuate Crete if it is not done at once.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-06

Grover c. has thrust conspicuousness
upon him.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-06

try within two or three years gave an
opinion OF "Marcella" that will b. su-
premely absurd to critical minds q
of years hence and even now
seem unwisely laudatory to some. It Is
the vogue 10Y to call a book above the
common level of the whole STRONG"
and if really interesting and exciting
great" We have been some times al
lured by these terms. and reading the
books have been much disappointed.
We are glad that France has a Bruno
liere and we wish h United States
had another. In the same paper we
met with another opinion OF the
Frenchman that impressed LIS. Speak
ing OF how one kind or form OF litera-
ture reappears afterwards in another
distinct kind Bruneliere said that
Victor Hugo's poetry is in some re-
spects the legitimate representative
and descendant of Bossuet's oratory."
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-24
Plan. for Game Protection.

Charles Hallock, editor of the West
ern Field and Stream, one of the best
known American sportsmen, proposes
that the United States be divided into
two sections as regards game protec-
ton. A line, he thinks, drawn along or
near the fortieth parallel of latitude
from the Atlantic to the Pacific would
give good division. Another plan is to
divide the states by blocks. New York,
Pennsylvania, Maine, and adjoining
states have similar game and hunting
regions should have law suited for
the conditions found in them. Then
the northern states of the Rocky noun
tains, where the game is pretty much
alike, could have a law suitable for
their conditions. Florida and adjacent
states need law that would protect
the birds now killed for their plumeS
or feathers.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-24
Cementine Leather to Iron.

To cement leather to iron, cut the
leather roughly to shape, allowing about
one inch per foot in the width of the
pulley. Then soak the leather in water
until it is wet through. Now stretch it
well in the direction of the circum-
stance of the pulley and cut it to exact
shape and length. 1t should next be
sewn up butt to butt with shoe
makers awl and thread, and theleather,
having been stretched in the direction
OF the circumference only, will, as it
gets dry, have tendency to resume its
former shape, thereby shortening in
circumference and "clip" to the pulley.
A shallow groove might be made for
the stitches to sink in.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-24

run from stem to stern, thus covering
the whole submerged portion of the
vessel.
Seen from the outside, you would not
know corn-clad vessel when you saw
one, as the vegetable armor would be
protected by a steel covering that is to
be made waterproof. The corn armor
will, however, add considerably to the
bulk of our men-of-war.
1t will be as thick again as the
heaviest armor, which is now placed
along the water line, and especially
where the engines and magazines are
situated. Some naval officers are of
the opinion that the vegetable armor
ought to be placed on the inside of the
ship, so that it would not swell up until
the armor has been pierced.
If that were done, however, it Is
pointed out that the cornstalk lining
would not have power enough in itself
to swell up and stop hole without a
firm backing of steel. By placing the
vegetable substance on the outside Il
swells in front of and closes the hole
which hostile projectile may make in
the steel armoT of the ship.
Back of the heavy armor in our bat.
tie ships the coal bunkers have beer
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-24
ADOPTS THE GOLD STANDARD.
After Four Years of Investigation,
Japan Decides to Discard Silver.

On March it was cabled from YoIo-
hama that japan had decided to adopt
the gold standard at ratio of 80 1-3
10 1, the new standard to go into opera
ton in October.
This act, on top of many previous
ones, moves japan completely out of
the ranks of the semi-civilized and into
those of civilized and progressive ma
tions. 1t was not taken hastily, but
after two years consideration of an
exhaustive report made by the Japanese
currency commission appointed in
1898.
This commission found that, while
certain capitalists, especially those EN-
ploying many laborers, were benefited
by the falling silver standard the wage
earners were injured from the fact that
their wages did not rise as fast as did
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-24
TIE Daily tiqRt
WEDNESDAY. MARCH "a, 1897.
CORNSTALK ARMOR.
The Latest Device for the Protec-
ton of Battleships.
With This New Covering Chopped
Fine and Pressed Into q Hard
Mnss 1t Is Said That No Man.
of-war Can Be sunk.

A new scheme has been devised for
the protection of men-of-war, which,
if put into operation, will make these
vessels look even more cumbersome
than they do at present. This new plan
involves no additional Harveyized steel
or further coating of 17-inch armor to
protect the ship from hostile guns.
Upon the other hand, the new armor is
to be made of no less a substance than
cornstalks. With a covering of this
substance, chopped fine and pressed
into hard, solid mass, it is said that
no man-of-war can be sunk.
Shot and shell may go through her,
her bottom may be ripped open by tor
pcdoes, and she may even have a hole
punched in her sides by ram, and yet
float. This marvel is to be accom-
plished by the simple action of the
water.
The water having once gained access
to the cornstalk armor, which lies along
side the whole outside of the ship
under thin covering Of steel, the vege-
table packing swells so rapidly as to
soon close the hole. Tests made by
naval officers have shown that this curl
GUS cornstalk packing, when once wet,
swells with a force that is irresistible.
The firm of Cramps, the great ship
builders, has purchased the patents on
this new process.
Cut up into huge slabs, like the steel
armor which is made at the Carnegie
works, this vegetable substance will
be loaded on freight cars and shipped
from the agricultural districts where
corn is plentiful to the seaboard. There
it will be packed and screwed into place
IN the sides of our new men-of-war.
According to the plans which have
been drawn up, this curious substance
is to be placed outside of the heavy
armor of our men-of-war from a dis
lance about eight feet above the water
line to the keel on both sides. 1t will
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-24

the prices OF what rney had to'Duy. Inc
report pointed out what every rational
trader ought to know-that a silver
standard country can trade and com
Eete with gold standard countries only
after paying the loss on exchange in
foreign trade. However, as the greater
part of Japan's trade was with China
and India, the two countries of Asia
still using the silver standard, the dis
advantage on this account was not con-
sidered great.
The silverites have lost with Japan
some of their best capital. OF course
they will tell us how British gold"
was used to bride the government into
betraying its people into the hands of
the money power. They cannot, how
ever, much longer tell us that we are
unable to compete with Japan because
she uses the silver standard.
The truth is that japan got tired of
being a second rate nation and of work
ing with second rate tools, and, after
careful investigation, concluded to get
rid of free coinage at ordinary ratios,
which drives gold out of the country as
fast as it can be coined and which re-
suits in the single silver standard, and
to adopt the gold standard at ratio
with silver which will permit the use of
both metals in her trade. 1t is wise
step. Japan is only one of four or five
nations which have adopted the gold
standard during the last 10 months.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-24

their bodies ornamented with protect
i've shields and their eyes canopied with
canvas hoods. On the shields and hoods
the device: eve want good Roads" ap-
peared. Three years ago Mr.. Potter
started the Good Roads Magazine. He
expended a large part of his private
fortune in the book, and only ceased it's
publication when directed to do so by
the body of which he is now the chief
executive. The book died, but it's death
served to increase Mr.. Potter's energy
toward a more active campaign for the
consummation of his pet desire. He has
accomplished much good, and it was
largely through his efforts that the
American League for Good Roads was
formed. He is an officer of that Or
ganization and in its councils is highly
regarded. For two years Mr.. Potter
has been chief consul of the New York
division. Under his aggressive direc-
ton the division has experienced won
dcrful growth, and by his efforts prin-
cipally, aided by his associates, the
Armstrong law, providing for the trans
portation of bicycles as baggage, was
enacted in New York a year ago. Mr..
Potter met with intense opposition in
his efforts to have the law passed, but
he fought and conquered the lobbyists.
New Jersey wheelmen are clamoring
for a similar law, and Mr.. Potter has
said that he will assist the riders of the
mosquito state" in their efforts to pro-
he Cd
ter's rise is the more noteworthy be-
cause of the intense opposition directed
against him, first as chief consul and
later as president of the league, by q
clique of disgruntled members of his
division. When he was nominated for
the chief consulship of New York sew
eral thousand fraudulent ballots were
printed and circulated in envelopes
bearing a counterfeit insignia of the
division. The genuine ballots were de-
layed until the fixed" ballots became
thoroughly circulated. He was elected
by a large majority, despite the unfair
methods of his adversaries. He has a
host of friends, and, like all progressive
men, some enemies. The latter, how
ever, are hopeless minority. He is an
orator of ability. parliamentarian Of
great force, an excellent financier and
an adept politician. He resides in
Brooklyn in a palatial home, which he
recently constructed to harbor a pleas
ant little woman, who six months ago
beguiled him from the ranks of bach
clorhood. If Mr.. Potter's previous en-
ergetic record is criterion, the league,
under his able guidance, may be ex-
pected to thrive during his reign as
it's president,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-24
PRESIDENT POTTER.
Sketch of the New Head of the League
of American WheeImen.

Isaac B. Potter, president of the
League of American Wheelmen, has
been prominent in the cycling world
for many years. His accession to the
highest Office of the wheeling organi-
cation is, in the estimation of most
cyclists, a fitting tribute to his efforts
toprocure for bicyclists what they most
desire-good roads. So hard has he
struggled for improved highways that
he became universally known as Good
Roads" Potter. Five years ago he estab-
hshed an Office in New York for the
purpose of spreading the gospel of bet
ter roads. Through his efforts tons of
literature have been circulated in every
quarter of the United States. They
fairly shrieked good roads. Thousands
of draft horses in New York had
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-24

placed. The coal packed along the sides
of the ship serves as protection to the
engines and magazines.
With such a coating a war vessel can
not "spring leak" or, if she does, the
leak will soon stop. A vessel so coated
might, it is said, Craze rock or touch
bottom while going at high speed with
out serious danger.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-24
Poor
Blood

When a horse is poor in flesh,
a new harness won't give him
strength. If a house is cold
new furniture won't warm 1t.
If your strength is easily ex-
hausted; work a burden;
nerves weak; digestion poor;
muscles soft; if you are pale
and worn out the trouble is
with the blood. 1t is not so
much IMPURE blood as
POOR blood. Pills won't
make this blood rich; nor will
bitters, nor iron tonics, any
more than a new harness will
give strength to the horse, or
new furniture will make a
house warm. For poor blood
you want something that will
make rich blood.
SCOTT'S EMULSION of
Cod-ivec Oil with Hypophos-
phites is the best remedy In the
world for enriching the blood.
We have prepared book telling you
moro about the subject. Sent Free.
For sale by ali druggists at Soc. & $I.Oo.
SCOT & BOVINE, New York
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-20
Down They Como.

Wednesdays Sun reported how Mr..
WILLIAM BROoKF1ELD, an anti-PLATT
Republican who for some time past has
been flying ecstatically high in the air
of municipal non-partisanship and segre-
cation of city affairs from affairs of State
and nation, fell to the hard and immov-
able rock bottom of practical politics.
"If the Republican organization" said
Mr.. BROoKFIELD. an outsider himself,
won't indorse Low, l am In favor of
a fight in every district of the city for
every Office to be filed" So municipal nom
p~artisanship will wage war upon Repub-
lican candidates for the State Senate
and Assembly If that party does not adopt
municipal non-partisanship's candidate for
Mayor of New York. "Take our candidate
for Mayor and we will be peaceful toward
you candidates for the Legislature" Be-
hold a deal
The Chairman of the Citizens Union
Executive Committee, Mr.. REYNOLDS, fell
from grace the day following. though not
with quite such a swish as B~RooKFIELD.
MIR. REYNOLDS is getting expert advice
on the subject of nominating by petition
candidates for minor places-Aldermen,
Councilmen, and the like"
From existing harmony between REY-
NoLDs and BRooKFIELD we presume that
Mr.. REYNoLDs's non-partisan mind also
entertains the idea of nominating candi-
dates for the Legislature as a means to
bulldozing the Republicans into serving
his municipal ~non-partisan ends.
The ways of the world are so firmly estab-
lished in respect Of methods of politics that
1t is terribly hard for a politician to avoid
them. The Citizens Union people are in
curably worldly.