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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-02

The first thing the incoming admins.
tration has to do is to put the business
Of the country on an expense paying basis
and the next thing is to put the business
OF the government on the same basis.
And one will quite naturally follow upon
the other, according TO all experience.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-02
Fossil Pills-The demand 1.

Fossil Pills-The demand Is proof of
their worth-Dr. Agnew's Liver pills
are beating out many fossil formulas at
n quarter "A box-They re better medicine
Easier doses and 10 cents at vial. A thou.
sand ailments may arise from disordercd
liver. Keep the liver right and you'll
not have Sick Headache, Biliousness,
Nausea, Constipation, and Sallow Skin.
Sold by Il. l.. Lothrop, 50 Westminster
street, Blanding a. Blanding, "a and So
Weybosset street, George L. Clafiin & Co,
81 to ~ South Main street.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-02
KNIGHTS OF pYrnlAs

Grand Keeper OF Records and Seal, william
a. Wilson. Room 6s5. Butlsr Exchange
Telephone i055.
PALEsJINE-40 Westminster street.
hEo CRoss-S0h Eddy street.
DAMoH-74 EDDY street.
GARrIELD-Veszie strset.
spEHsEvEBAHcr-l7h3 Westminster street
Notwithstanding Hall. 2ua Weybosset "A
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-02

If II Is true as stated by the advocates
Of the anti-ticket scalping bill that every
railroad in the land now redeems mt its
face value any unused tickets, the bill to
prohibit the brokerage business would
seem to be fairly well justified.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-02

The French government last year de-
rived an income Of sS2, 900, 600 from the
state monopoly Of tobacco We can con.
ceive how the French people may stand
the tax without murmuring but how
they can stand the French cigars rs he
yond us.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-02

The prospective observances of March IL
IN Nevada suggest the celebration of the
Battle of the Boync and St. Patrick 3
Day both at the same time
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-02
AMERICAN MECHANICS. !

State Council Secretary. Charles w. Littsu
e89 Westminster street.
LIBKRry-Slocum Post Hail. Market square
AMKRIoA-Odd Fellows Hall 9. wesiisinsts,
street.
vIoILAST-orisntsl Hall, corner wsstrniusts
and Dean streets.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-02

Within few hours now Mr.. William
Mckinley Of Canton will take on the duties
snd responsibilities associated with the
position of hired man to seventy millions of
people, n goodly proportion Of whom
have standing reputation for chronic
,ault finding. More power TO his elbowl
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-02

We won't complain because Providence
got no post Office from the Fifty fourth
Congress The expiring body was in
nothing else, perhaps, more remarkable
than in its failure to appropriate for a
single public building anywhere. And it
might have done good deal worse.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-02
MARRIED.

AIKEN -WALDEN-In this city, Feb. q, by
Rev. n. l. Cushman, q. M. \. Akin to
Ada Isabel Walden, all of this city.
DMAN-RIOPELLE-In this city, Feb
25, by Rev. Mr.. Cate, George ". Good.
man and DR. Louise Riopelle, both Of this
city.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-02

Civilization in Chicago Is not vet nd.
vanccd to the point of appreciation of
grand opera as IL T. prncticcd in New
York bat perhaps tho Chicago folks want
to get up cnc Of their own and show the
Eastern metropolis how 10 do IL
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-02

We have not yet heard from New Bed
ford on the authenticity of the story of
Jonah and the Whale.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-02
Naphtha Burned in Russia.

lions pools of naphtha have been destroyed
by fire in the Naphtha springs district.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-02

While every person cannot have an
abundant head of hair. 1t j. possible.
with carc and the Use of Halls Hair
Remover TO grow respectable hirsutic
coyerips
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-02

Many prospective minister TO Dahomcy
will bc found in the crowds at Washing
ton, alas
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-02

Senator Ben Tillman made boor of
himself yesterday as he may be expected
TO do ever upon opportunity.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-02

We seem TO be still at peace with Great
Britain without any arbitration treaty.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-02

Come, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness,
comet
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-02
RED MEN.

orsat Chief OF Records. William n. Brown, =
Eddy street. Telephone liza
KyNo PHILIP-I57 Westminster street.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1897.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16
A VERY GREAT MANS OPINION
OFiTRIAL BY JURY.

The late Edward Gibbon, the great
est of modern historians, who moved
in such grand, stately teps through his
resounding periods, had a rathe poor
opinion of English juries. This was in
the last century and of trials of this
kind he held them in evident contempt.
Here is what he wrote in one of his
letters but published the other day for
the first time in two volumes, which
together with his seven Memoirs" Of
himself and from his own pen, are now
out given to the enlightened kingdom
of letters, or if you please, republic of
letters: Out Of twelve jurymen, I sup
pose six to be incapable of understand
ing the question, three afraid of Civ
ing offence, and two more who will not
take. the trouble of thinking. Remains
one who has sense, courage and appli-
cation" This is from a most able. enor-
mously learned Englishman who lived
IN close companionship with the great
est men of his time and with many of
the nobility. He gives freely, deliber-
ately his opinion Of an English jury
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16
SHARPS AND FLATS.

It has been generally taught in books
and schools that the alphabet was of
Phoenician origin. It Is only lately
that we have heard otherwise. It really
began, as far as known now, in the
Island Of Crete, now making UGH a
wal racket. An eminent English arch
a%eologist is Arthur J.. Evans. He has
been working in Crete and has made
several highly Interesting discoveries.
1t is reported that he has discovered
fragments of an inscription which an
tedateS the discovery OF writing by
centuries. It is said that the invention
of the alphabet belongs to the prehis-
toric M~ycenaeans, whose remains now
constitute the most interesting prob
lem of antiquity" Quite a year since,
Mr.. Evans, at a meeting of the British
association held at oxford, "~demonstra-
ted the existence of a prehistoric Gre
tar script, evolved by gradual simpli-
fcation n selection from an earlier
picture writing"-akin to that of
Egypt and Babylon, This script is first
found in association with the curious
seals and scarabs which the ancients
were fond of carving, and which a
themselves served to race the adj
vancement of art and proximately the
history Of these early people" He
made other interesting statements and
proofs.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16
RELIGIOUS EDITORIALS FOR
SUNDAY.

The free thinkers, sceptics and scien-
tiGc know nothings. are losing their
confidence somewhat. Many writer's
supposed tx be no better than heather
made concessions before dying that
showed a falling away from the early
advsrced position taken. BY search
ing for and preserving evidences pub
lished from time to time 1t would not
he difficult to offer nc little to show the
power o. revealed truth in breaking
down the strongholds Of scepticism,
infdelity, maternaiism n all the alb
surd "isms'' hat flourish like fungi,
the product of a night, and die OF In
ternal rot in the end. Many foolish
'isms," like maggots in decayed cheese
or meat, have crawled and fourished
in their little time and been forgotten.
1t is interesting hat even h social
ed higher critics" are thinning out
and wearying of their Improbable
nOthingness. Among this class two m
inent scholars, Professors Sayce and
Hommel, are said to have washed
their hands of the whole business This
is healthful and shows that men
who are truly religious cannot live al
ways ION the husks hat the swine do
eat" Still another very eminent man
of science-hardly second to any after
Darwin, has renowned allegiance to
the agnostic view n has recovered his
faith in God. The Nashville Advocate
says:
Starting in life as n ardent Chris
tan, he gradually moved away from
orthodox belief until he reached the
point OF downright agnosticism. AS he
grew older, however, and meditated
more profoundly on the facts of nature
and the problems of human life, he re-
covered his lost faith, and died in COM
munion with Christ and his Church.
That ne was a poet as we'll as a scien-
tist is not generally known"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16

something over an hundred years ago.
Suppose he were living now, and in
North Carolina, and in Wilmington,
and could study Of the juries that
are qualified by the laws of the state to
decide questions taxing intellect, hon.
esty, sense of right, and OF
knowledge, what think you would be
the judgment OF qualifications OF such
a jury empannelled to try causes?
Would not this most illustrious Eng
1ish scholar and author conclude that
jury trial was a farce, a crime, far
worse, much more Of a sham than the
English jury. of which he wrote SO
directly? And yet this is the system
admired. coddled and eulogized by the
intelligence of the bar and by men Of
sense outside Of the profession.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16

ing masses. What will be its attitude
as to the rascally. oppressive, out
rageous trusts that devour the sub
stance OF the helpless people? The peo-
pie will be glad indeed il the republic
cans hall take the trust bull by the
horns." Trusts are the pets OF selfish.
greedy, remorseless men. They ever go
Sd far as to put W a plea that they are
really beneficial to the country. But
all pretence and barney OF this sort Is
intended to deceive. to hoodwink. Fail
lacy and fraud lie at the very bottom.
II the Mckinley administration shall
identify itself with trusts and COM
bines it will be sure to commit politi-
cal hara-kiri- it will be doomed and
damned by an injured, offended peo-
pie. The New York World gives this
bit Of history:
The laws against trusts were enact
ed by congress in response to an ire
sistible popular demand for protection
against robbery. Mr.. Harrison defeated
the peoples purpose by appointing an
incompetent attorney as chief law Of
ficer Of the government. The people re-
scented the affront at the polls in 1890.
and as no atonement was made they
swept the republican party out of place
in 1892 by an overwhelming majority.
The World pointed the moral to Mr..
Cleveland in advance of his Inaugural
ton. 1t plainly told him that his adj
ministration must stand or fall by his
selection of an attorney general.
Unheeding the warning, and with
that dull insensibiiity to public opinion
which Is his dominant characteristic,
Mr. Clpvpl9 n6-wifh renewed nlesigaS
OF hostility to trusts still hot upon his
lipS-Selected as his attorney general
Richard Olney, the hired lawyer of the
whiskey trust and organizer of railway
combinations"
What will Mckinley do about them?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16

The Volunteers of America" Bal
lingtOn Booths new religious organiza-
rion, recently celebrated it's first ami
versary. The report shows hat they
have grown rapidly since the formation
of the organization. Commander Booth
says, having now more than fifty Off
GERS, more than 100 posts and more
than 5000 defenders paying an annual
subscription of IS each. In the west the
organization has grown ven more
rapidly than in the east.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16
They Both Took Poison.

Fort Wayne. Ind. March 13.-Wil-
liam f. Colerick, one OF the most eio-
quent and brilliant young lawyers OF
Indiana. was found dead on a lounge
in the front room at the house OF his
fiancee, Miss Mae Hall, In this city.
at 8 O'Clock this morning, and Miss Hall
was found unconscious in her room at
the rear Of the same residence. Both
had taken carbolic acid. Miss Hall is
at Hope hospital, where her death il
hourly expected. Mrs. Hall. mother of
the young lady, has gone to ST. Paul
to be married.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16

The political pulpiteer and blather-
skite who insulted the south and out
ragged decency is named Mallalieu, and
is a Yankee Methodist Bishop from
New England. If he is a specimen of
Methodism in his land it is better to
be without it,
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16

The republicans counted chickens be-
fore they were Matched. 1t vas report
ed that Pettigrew and Cannon, from
the west, would vote with the repub-
licans for a protection tax bill. They
repudiate the statement.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16

Out in ndian there is a miraculous
the years and now has himself indicted
for his rascality. He goes to prison Tor
two years. There is, we hope, a chance
for genuine reform in him. His self
conviction shows he is not 81 totally
depraved there is nothing left to build
nnOn
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16

Mckinley has been president for ten
days, and yet the "a Of prosperity
starteth not. There is a hitch some
now. Hurry it along Mr.. Nc. and keep
your promises. Suffering people are in
no humor for delay or disappointment.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16

All the new cabinet are ~millionaires,
and but two have collegiate educations.
To be a goldbug does not necessarily
require a classical education.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16

Butcher Weyler says he will lay
waste what Gomez has left and will
make the war in Cuba more horrible.
What a relief to the Cubans il he
would only get near enough to battle
to catch a flying bullet.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16

Those terrible insurgents" are very
impudent fellows. Think Of their blow
ing up trains right under the naughty
nose of the barbaric, bloody butcher,
Weyler, and then bombarding the very
suburbs Of Havana itself.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16

The greedy Ohio republicans are
much disturbed and complaining. The
mighty boodler in the senate-Hanna-
actually let slip a good fat place that
some Ohioan might have got. Awful!
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16

Fearful snow storms in the cruel.
cold west, but here in North Carolina
the mercury records about SIS. Give us
the south all h time and for all
things.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16

Ingalls, has dropped low. He is go
ing to report the mawling match be-
tween the bruisers for The New York
Journal.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16

God grant thai the rumor as to
Spain is true-that it a reached the
end Of it's ability to recruit her armies
and to carry on the var of desolation.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16

Another lie nailed. Japan is not on
the gold standard as reported by gold
bugs There has been no adoption Of it,
but it may come in the future.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16

Another Great Truth.-"We ought to
give even the devil his due"
Yes: but the trouble is We often
spend on him money We W to other
people."-Chicago Record.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16

There is a wide protest among the
real Christian leaders of the religious
press, the men of brains and force and
plain speech, to the money-making
system of evangelism. The entire mer-
cenary tribe are being weighed as to
their worth. There is something of dis
credit mingled with disgust. When the
passionate learns that it is weakened
sadly by relying upon evangelistS 70
do this work they will not be SO ready
to draw such support and take to
such crutches. Mercenary ministers are
not confined to the evangelistic work.
They are all around the country, aud
rich f1ocks and pastors now are very
much sought. It is not SO nue. with
man, as to doing good and building
up the Kingdom Of Righteousness as it
Is to fat salaries and fine homes and
the applause Of listening congrega-
tons. It is not we'll for Christianity
that any of the men who profess to be
called to preach h unsearchabie
riches of Christ and to save souls are
among the grasping, time-serving,
mercenary who delight to cushion
their canal man" in soft and richly
hcIstered seats. The man who does
these things is a failure in the very
things whereunto he is called as he
declares. He lowers the dignity, inf1u-
ence and character OF the pulpit. The
g%rasping, greedy preacher is not of the
Paul and Peter tyDe and show but lit
tie. if any, of the true Apostolic spirit.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16

Will the new administration be
against or for the people? The outgiv-
ings look as if it would be anything
but favorable and friendly to the toll
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16
SNAPS

Mckinley cultivates amiability and
is quite affable, n therefore, very
unlike the great and only Cleveland"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-08
Seth Low and Columbia University.

To THE EDITOR OF THE sus-Sir: This Seth Low
business Is simply the same old business that has
been going on in Columbia College or University for
the last six years. II you want n place on the pay
roll sw ring a censor before Seth Low. Every alumnus
OF the college knows that what Mr.. Lawrence said in
your columns was true-that Low is a mediocre man.
who will only appoint mediocre men 20 posts about
him in order to conceal his own med ocrity But not
every alumnus OF the college has the courage to say so.
What could well he more mediocre than this Low
clacque that has nominated " him. II Is a case Of
Quod Deus ruit perdere Drin,us demsntnt. and It has
come sooner than we alumni expected. Nor did we
look for IL in precisely this shape. But certainly no
thinking alumnus OF Columbia could see this driving
away OF al lie men and this rr alton OF innumerable
chairs OF atstruse and mainly ridiculous branches OF
all ged knowledge in order to I'LL them with unknown
worshippers OF Seth Low without looking for a catas-
trophc somewhere
Now that Mr. Low is q full.nedged candidate. I sup
pose all episodes in his career will be ventilated. so
let US have the truth OF the forcing OF the eminent
Dwight out OF the Law School and his successorship
in the gentleman Cwhosa nam l have forgotten) who
now holds the place. FRANK l. FREEMAN,
an alumnus OF the Law School of Columbia.
NEWPORT. Sept. 4.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-08
Mysteries.

1t is to be hoped for Mr.. Lows sake
that his letter accepting the Citizens
Union nomination will clear up some not
too pleasant mysteries.
The condition prescribed by Mr.. Low In
June was hat he should have before him
the "evidencc of popular desire for
him to become a candidate. The evil
dcnce offered and accepted was the petit
tion purporting to be signed by 100000
men. Republicans attached their names
to indicate the candidate that would
please them, were he to become har.
moniously the leader of n union against
Tammany Hall. We imagine that the
head of a Bible class, seeking to exhi.
bit to his scholars the models of honor
and uprightness in public life, YOU
promptly strike from his list the politician
who should construe the Low petition as
evidence of popular desire for the benefi.
ciary to run as an Independent candidate,
allies or no allies. 1t would put a casuist
somewhat to his trumps to prove such a
man strictly honest, and habituated to
walking in the fear of GoD." Mr.. Lows
letter may make this shady side of the cpl
sode shine with the light of rectitude.
Another condition was that the Citizens
should convince Mr.. Low that he would
prove a "unifying force among the friends
of good government in the CITY," Generally
this was interpreted rs meaning a unifying
force among the opponents of Tammany
Hall. Republicans included. The Erening
Post has suggested the bubble that the Re-
publicans could not have been thought of by
Mr.. Low, inasmuch as they were distinctly
in favor of bad government, and hat the uni.
t~ication idea applied only to the friends of
good government, or to the pnrtisans of the
Citizens Union Is this bubble to be Mr..
Lows bubble, and if so, what, in accepting
the nomination by word of mouth, did he
mean by "allics"i
Again, Mr.. Low said to Mr.. CLARK that
he would contend for the principle of the
Citizens Union, be friends few or many
and accepted its nomination because OF
its principle. If that be so, why in June
did he palaver abou evidence of pop.
ular desire for hint If the call to the
patriot to stand for this principle
prescribed a public duty which could
not be gainsaid,' why did Mr.. Low
in June plead his responsibilities to Column
o" 'oiitSc, PiiNape 'ohSSih WHICH liz
Mr.. Low, could fully compensate for los
ing him by the gift of another millioni
And how is the present situation lessen
italy different from that contemplated II
: Iunc"I Perhaps if Mr.. Low should explain
that, he would explain all the mysteries.
Even the small portion of the Low cam
paign yet unfolded affords a very interest
ing field for study in morals.