The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-22
STATE PRESS.

The officers who summoned the special
Venire jurors of our May court were much
disappointing and disguised on last Nom
day when the county commissioners al
lowed them only 10 cents for each juror
summoned. Some of the officers had rid
den nearly all night and about fifty miles,
and their fees were only from 80 cents to
81. The commissioners. however, are not
to be blamed. for they paid all that the
law allows.-Pittsboro Record.
Prosperity is still striking many of our
banks, factories and mills and enabling
the stockholders to better suspend than
TO run. If it would strike the laborers in
a way that it would be to their financial
interest to quit work, and at the same
then prosperity would be a direct help
to- those who most need it. But nine
tenths of these laborers who work in
the factories and mills voted for this
prosperity just to please their bosses and
to hold their jobs. They were told better.
If they can't hear they must feel. 1t is a
pity for their innocent wives and children.
Men who will sell their votes for a Job,
ought to suffer, and they are doing it
Hickory Mercury.
Parties travelling in Wilkes and some
other counties tell The Republican that
the woods are white with the finest oaks
slaughtered for the tanbark. rms is
wrong. and makes us think of the fable
of the goose that layed the golden eggs.
Her owner foolishly concluded that she
must have a mine of gold within. her,
and tnaC by kllll1S lIc SOOSC IC NouiN ~
cure it all at once. He killed the goose
and found nothing as the reward for his
cupidity. Just SO, the farmer or land
owner who cuts his forests just for the
bark, which barely pays for the gathering
is doing like the Indian and hunters VINO
a few years ago ~extinguished the buffalo
on our plains. Shooting them just for
their hides. Had they been protected now
their meat and hides would be a valuable
source of revenue both to the white man
as we'll as the Indian. Don't waste your
u. Il {L@ ttrnn l. mot for off when VON
will regret it. If the bark is demanded
let the saw mill follow and cut the stocks
into lumber which under the new tariff
law will soon become a new source OF
revenu to the farmer or
Winston Republican.
This problem of better schools and longer
terms for the children of the plain peo-
pie of North Carolina can be solved. we
know it is the only reasonable way: the
only way at all. 1t must be done lnde-
pendent of general assemblies. We rely
upon them for more than is IN them;
We must do more ourselves. here: III
two or three intelligent citizens IN each
township in North Carolina will take hole
of our public school system right now ano
guide it intelligently through the presen,
period of transition, the first ana mos'
What do we mean? Our school system
will undergo an entire change in June
The present school districts will be merg'
ed into township DISTRICTS; that 1t, eacf
township will have it's own schools. Al
the public schools in a township Will be II
charge of five men. In each toWnshll
there shall not be more than one schoo
age. This means that some schools mus
be abandoned: which means that other
schools will be strengthened. Let our pa
trioic citizens exert themselves that TN:
abandoning of some schools and strength
eniRgt of others be done wiSely.-Chad
bourn Journal.