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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-05

per cent. according to favorable or un-
so-caIled estimates would ave been
carer h mark han those attained.
AS conducted the guessers are Of no
particular value whatever. They only
serve to bring ridicule upon the depart
men: as but little confidence is reposed
in the guesses. While the private crop
bureaux may not be much better, they
are surely no worse. The wild guess
ing is not the limit OF official guessing.
1t is complained that the information
respecting foreign crop conditions
which he supplies is always a month
these days. when changed crop condi-
tions anywhere in the world are
promptly cabled to all the central grain
markets, it is folly for the depart
ment at Washington to waste time
and money disseminating every month
reports Of European crops that have
come across h ocean by mail and
lain in h Office at Washington a week
or two before their publication. AS a
practical example of m~iscalculation we
see it mentioned as to the guessing in
n state, Nebraska. The government
experts reported the wheat crop of
thai state at q, 900, coo bushels for this
year. The state report issued a week
or so since makes the yield 80, 600, 900 or
36 per cent. more-a difference in one
state of II, 600, 900 bushels.
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The Durham Sun represents wagons
making for that town as stuck in the
mud" One farmer had to leave his
wagon out in the country mired down.
He said he didn't know whether it
would be there when he got back or
not. Some teamsters have had to help
one another out of these difficulties.
This often happens near other North
Carolina towns and ali through the
winter months. The public roads are
both a burden to travellers and haulers,
and a positive disgrace to the intelli-
gence and economic sense Of the peo-
pie. A good roads revival is needed in
this state that is asleep as yet to their
utility and necessity. 1t is astonishing
that people are so slow to learn as to
their own best interests. 1t is so not
only in the country districts, but in the
towns also.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5. 1897.
VICTORY

The people have been extremely long
suffering. But they la begun in one
year after McKinley's very unfortunate
election to weigh him and his unfaith-
fuI, treacherous party ir the balances,
and the signs are as we write that they
have been wanting in those principles,
qualities and actions that give promise
of stability to free institutions and Of
prosperity and glory to the country.
The people-pot bosses and magnates
and Office holders and plutOcrats-have
grown weary and respondent under po-
2ifical miscarriages and official time
serving. They are disappointed, dis
gusted and indignant. They feel dis
poiled and deceived. Promises have
been completely forgotten. The fruits of
political pledges have turne to rotten
ness and like the tabled Dead Sea fruit
have been turned to ashes on the lips.
The people are not fools or geese. They
learn to know and to distrust betray-
ers, and are ready hen to apply the
remedy and to discipline the deceivers.
Aroused and. angry they spurn their
oppressors:
"You must not think,
That we are made of stuff 70 fiat and
dull,
That we can let our hearts be shook
with danger,
And think it pastime."
The people are in revolt against the
bosses. Look at the results of Tues
day 50 far as we know them on We'd
Dssday. The indications seem to war
rant the conclusion that the democrats
the only real and faithful party of
the p~eople-are victorious in many
places n states where they were de-
feated in 1896. The news as a whole is
3oyfully stirring and causes new hope
and a fresh courage to fill the great
democratic heart.
>Tammany swoopingly victorious in
Greater New York and Virginia. Gains
in Boston, in Detroit, in Baltimore, in
louisville, in Cincinnati, in Akron, o.,
in Mansfield, o., in Providence, r. l.,
an perhaps in other cities. They have
gained in New York state, in Kentucky,
in Iowa, in Pennsylvania, in Rhode
Island, in Nebraska, in Ohio. They
have lost in some states and perhaps in
: some cities, but the wave Of success
sets steadily towards the democratic
shore. Maryland is probably lost again
and the Baltimore Sun is mainly re-
sponsible for it. If Kentucky
is again republican it is owing
to the treachery of Henry Wat
terson and his Hopping newspaper,
The Louisville Courier-Journal, that has
turned tail against almost every thing
it ever taught or represented. Our
readers will receive additional news
with this that may be of still more en-
cOuragement to the cause Of democ-
Eacy.
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GUESSING AT CROPS

Attention was recently called to the
government guessing and the guess
ing Of imagined or pretended experts as
to growing crops. 1t was stated that
the errors were not only Of the mis-
leading, but large. Secretary Wilson
has announced hat the guessing part
Of the agricultural department is to
be Overhauled. 1t very much needs it.
The shop is out of order, the machin-
cry fails to work without friction,
guessing is at a discount. The bad
guessing a been distressing, annoy
ing. Think of this: in the last six
years the actual wheat crops Of the
United States have averaged about
60, ZOO, 900 bushels more each year than
the government estimates of the crops.
If the guessers had taken any year
the final output of the crop the year
before and added or detracted 10 or Is
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(From The Philadelphia
The liquor question Is such a burning
one at Princeton that Prof. Charles w.
Shields, of the university, has decided
to sever his Connection with the Presby-
terrain Church because Of what he con-
siders unjust, unconstitutional, anu
defamatory action" Of Presbyterian OF
fetal bodies in criticising him for sign
ing a petition for a liquor license. The
license was for a new inn. not d.
rectly connected with the university,
but understood to be an effort to draw
away the students form low drinking
saloons and worse resorts by giving
them a place where they could have
respectable surroundings and obtain
liquor in moderation, but not in excess.
1t is q new phase of the old contest be-
tween prohibition and restriction or the
liquor traffic, INK the outcome will per-
haps give some indication or the DRIFT
Of public sentiment, IL it does not fur
nish testimony to h merits OF the
question itself.
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HOW LONG

The Boston Globe has this:
Think of it! Great Britain, without
a pound of native raw cotton, spins
and weaves owe II per cent. of the
cotton goods that are purchased by
other nations, while this country, pro-
ducing over one-half of all the cotton
grown in the world, supplies less than
5 per cent"
1t thinks properly that this state Of
affairs is very discreditable to Ameri-
can enterprise. 1t wants to know what
cotton manufacturers and others are
going to do about it? If Scotland had
great advantages over England in cot
ton milling by eason of production of
the cotton, having the water power,
having cheaper labor and so on, how
long would the English cotton spinners
keep away from Scotland and stick to
their old methods and losing ways?
They would go in, place their plants
and work with the Scotchmen in neigh
.borly competition The south has great
advantage over New England and New
England at last knows it. What keeps
New England capital and enterprise
from entering the south but sectional
prejudice begotten of slavery and war
inc ignorance. Scotland and England
waged wars against each other not
once, but often. Take the example and
learn how to forget and to cooperate.
1t is the who generally is
the last to forgive. Think of the wis
dom and greatness of Great Britain
manufacturing II per cent. of the raw
cotton of the world not making a
pound itself. Then think of this vast
country so rich in u and in
men paying constant tribute to Eng
land and cOntenting itself with produc-
ing more than half of the raw cotton
in all the world and manufacturing less
han 5 per cent. of the whole. It is
a full rival to the course of North Car
DINA selling her rich n varied woods
to the north to be manufactured into
furniture, carriages, buggies, wagons,
ETC., and to be resold to our people at
four or five hundred per cent. profit.
Or with our fertile lands and long and
favorable seasons, and yet failing to
grow our vegetables and bread stuffs
and fruits have to depend on the cold
north or distant California or the
northwest. There is nothing to re-
deem UGH a course from unmitigated
contempt.
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The use Of mourning envelopes does
not render q person liable to arrest
for bIackInail.
About the only difference In a saloon
and in a cafe is in the prices charged
for drinks.
Some statesmen are self-made. but
the majority OF the politicians are ma
chine-made.
II you start on a journey and forget
to take an umbrella with you it's a
m sign OF rain.
There are unlimited opportunities for
a man who is determined to make a
fool Of himself.
Some men are Indifferent as to what
others think or them; but what they
say Of them is another matter.
The sensible man never ompiain
II he break his leg he is always thank
full that it isn't his neck.
It's a poor recommendation for her
biscuit when a oor widow tells o
fond her late husband was OF them.
A. baseball nine is called a team, but
what the team sometimes calls the
umpire wouldn't look we'll in print
A man likes to refer to himself as an
idiot at times, but it makes him mad
if anybody agrees with him..
A girl never tries to extinguish the
spark as long as a man has money to
burn.
Som people are like one-legged milk
stools-no good unless sat upon.
The man who never argues with
ONE children or fools has but Few
arguments.
A Millionaire has a better show in
this world than the average theatrical
manager.
The swan always sings before 1T dies
and death often n the mosquitoes
song.
When a wife puts on too many airs
the atmosphere Of her home is not
what it should he.
An ounce Of prevention is not worth
a pound of cur in the pork-packing
business.
There is something wrong with the
woman who talks only when she has
something to ay.
An insurance policy often makes a
man more valuable after death than
during his life.
Don't think because a man is always
harping on the idea, that he is a born
musician.
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Teach Them h

To learn to respect the perfection of
things is of infinite value to a child. If
1t is a flower, to shelter and try to
keep 1t alive, never, wantonly to pluck
and fling away a blossom; if it is a
book, not to deface or mar it, if it is
a wall, not to mark or deface it.; If It
is a smooth rolled lawn, not to litter
1t with rubbish or deface it with wheel
marks. To learn to wait patiently; all
their lives long they will give thanks
for having been taught how to do this.
How many a pleasant talk has been
interrupted, how many an otherwise
helpful visit has been lost by a teasing.
pulling child, tormenting it's mother
either to listen to it's emands or to go
somewhere.
The whole of it's life lies in what the
child earns OF these things, and it
must either grow into selfish manhood
or womanhood, n t o have the evil
beaten out by the hard and bitter
teachings of the world in which it was
meant to be happy n useful, rather
than ito begin thus late to learn that
We cannot live unto ourselves.
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THE PROBABLE FATE OF

We can recall the great anxiety in
and his crew were believed to be lost
in the frozen north seeking explora-
tons. The whole of that ountr was
aroused in deepest interest, and the
civilized world was sympathetic and
the newspapers teemed with rumors
and discussions. 1t turned out tina the
hardy, brave men had been indeed lost.
This occurs to us as we read of the
growing silence as to Herr Andres and
his bold balloon voyage to the Polar
regions. After many false reports as
to pigeons being found that a been
sent Out by the bold navigator Of the
skies. Is Andree lost and has he found
a stopping place where he a await in
he hope Of the coming of
some ship in which to return
home Or is he making his way
back towards civilization on a sledge?
1t is said to be sixteen weeks since he
began his fearful voyage for the polar
sea or basin in his aerial and frail
ship. He went prepared with provi-
sions, sledge and boat. We must hope
that a merciful Providence has been
over him shielding, guiding, saving him
from death, with his two companions,
in the awful region of unbroken ice.
He may be alive. 1t is o yet soon
enough to abandon all hope. Other
navigators nave been rescued after dis
appearing for a year Or longer. Let us
trust that it may be so with the VEN
turesome and brave vOyager who had
great misgivings as to the result Of his
attempt and taking life in hand went
peril and with probably death awaiting
him. The New York Tribune scays of
the outlook for Andree:
"It is not surprising that no tidings
have been received from him.. There
was no reason to expect any until he
himself brought them. 1t is scarcely
conceivable that his carrier pigeons
could make their way back to Europe.
If he sent any they probably persisted
before they got half way back. Nor
would the cork bouys he vas going to
drop into the sea meet with a much
better fate. There are few vessels in
the Arctic Ocean to pick them up, and
a yea may elapse before they drift
through the ice encountered to
the open and frequented waters of the
Atlantic or Pacific. There have been
numerous announcements hat he had
been heard from, but all have proved
false, and today his fate is as impene-
trable a mystery as ever. There is
still, Of course, ground for hope, but
that, with patient waiting, is all.
Search and relief expeditions are out
of the question, for there is absolutely
no means Of telling at what point on
the great circle of the Arctic limits he
is most likely to be found. Nor, in
happy truth, is there any telling what
day he LAY emerge from the northern
sahara, safe and sound, and with I'M
Saga on his lips"
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A LITTLE SUFFERER

Face, Hands and Arms Covered With
Scrofulous Humors- How a Cure
Was Effected.
"When five years old my little boy had
scrofula on his face, hands and arms. 1t
was worst on his chin, although the sores
on his cheeks and hands were very bad.
1t appeared in the form of red pimples
which would tester, break open and run
and then scab over. After disappearing
they would break out again. They caused
intense itching and the little sufferer had
to be watched continually to keep him
from scratching the sores. We became
greatly alarmed at his condition. My
wlfe's mother had had scrofula and the
only medicine which had helpd her was
Hoods Sarsaparilla. We decided to give
it to our boy and we noted an improve
ment in his case very soon. After giving
him -four bottles of Hoods Sarsaparilla
the humor had all been driven out of his
blood and it has never since returned"
WILLIAM BARTZ, 416 South Williams ST.,
South Bend, Indiana.
You can buy Hoods Sarsaparilla Of all
druggists. Be SUI to get only Hoods.
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C. F. & 7. Y.
coDe Feu QNd Y0dEa v0||ey R0ilV0y

Schedule in Effect October 10th. 1897.
TRAINS LEAVE WILMINGTON.
DAILY. Arrives Fayetteville 11:1o a. m,
500 a. m. Sanford 1850 p. m. Greensboro
800 p m. Walnut Cove 4:49 p. m.
Mt. Airy GAS pm. Connects with
Southern Railway at Green's
boro. Arriving Salisbury $50 p.
M. Asheville 1872 a. m. Knox
yiIle 100 e. + m; c~h i:ss n %a
6:IO a M. Danville 12:oo night.
Lynchburg 1:5S a. m. Char
lottesville 3:25 q. m, Washing
ton 6:42 a. M, Baltimore 500 a.
m. Philade!pnis 10:15 a. M. New
York 1913 p. m.
TRAINS ARRIVE WILMINGTON.
DAILY. From New York. Philadelphia,
1920 p. m. Baltimore, Washington, Char
Mt. Airy. Walnut Cove. Greens
boro, Nashville, Chattanooga
Knoxville, Asheville, Salisbury.
Atlanta, Charlotte and all points
North. South and West.
LOCAL FREIGHT TRAIN NO. 8.
Leave Wilmington 2:55 p. m. arrives
Fayetteville 9:15 p. m. Passenger Coach
attached to this train.
Connections at Fayetteville with At
lantic Coast Line, at Maxton with the
Carolina Central Railroad. at Red Springs
with the Red Springs and Bowmore Rail-
road, at Sanford with the Seaboard Air
Line, at Gulf with the Durham and Char
lotte Railroad, at Greensboro with the
Cove with the Norfolk and Western
Railway.
J. w. FRY, w. u. KYLE.
Gent Manager. Gen'l Pass. Agent
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AN EXPERT ON THE CIGARETTE

We have noticed lately some state
Enents in newspapers as to the decrease
In the drinking habit. The statistics
of consumption in Europe and the
United States do not justify this cheer
ful view, if we are not much mistaken.
These talks of a lessening evil is much
Hike the occasional outburst of the
press that crime is diminishing. Do
not attach too much Importance to
such statements. DR.. Leslie E. Kelley,
h famous expert, is talking again of
h dreadful cigarette habit that un-
>dermines the constitution Of so many
thousands of the youth of our own
land, and sends so many to premature
graves. The Washington Post reports
him as saying:
There Is the horrible cigarette habit,
that gets hold of our young boys and
destroys them physically and mental
Ay. The best type of a decadent is
FOUND in the cigarette fiend. He wakes
up in the night to indulge in his inhal-
alton of tobacco. mixed with opium
and app in paper bleached with
arsenic. Before in the morn
ing the same solace is a necessity. If
the evil ended there it wouldn't be so
bad, but it is the prolific source of a
swarm of worse evils. To my mind
cigarette smoking means degeneracy,
an / would like to see the most strin-
gen legislation on the subject in every
state in the union"
If half hat is said against cigarettes
is true by physicians in the east, west
and south, what must be thought of
the fellows who make these poisonous
destructives? What about the huge
cigarette trust, in SO much favor with
n certain type of religionists? Is it bet
ter or worse than distilling mean whis-
key? The cigarette puts in it's bale
du1, deadening work earlier in life. It
digs under the physical foundations of
youth in the formative state before the
ful vigor is established. 1t fixes a ter
lfble habit upon the young life and
keeps it in leading strings and dooms
1T to early blast and then the grave.
1t Is a horror to be stunned, to be
despised. The Charlotte Observer says
timely and pungently: |
The cigarette gets In fits work QUIET |
II. N surely, and It binds its victim
nth q chain as strong as any ever
0Drg4d BY whiskey. The cigarette evil
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HOME FOLKS

According to The Charlotte News the
total output OF gold for North Carolina
in 1897 will not exceed $50, 900. That
Is an underestimate we may suppose.
The reports from mines are altogether
misleading il the above figures are
neal the mark of production.
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Compulsory education is a fad up
north and with fanatics of a certain
sort in the south. In Philadelphia they
have thirty men and five women
hunting absentees from schools and
are paid 81 a day for this work. The
Bulletin Of that city says of the school
committee that they would better first
look after the many who are not now
properly cared for in the schools than
to crowd them with those whom The
city must pay it's truant catchers 81 a
day to force into the class rooms."
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Tarboro Southerner: On Thursday last
a shocking accident occurred on the
farm of Mrs. Lucy Station. which re-
suited in the death of the victim, a col
ored boy named Dan Whitehead. His
father was having some cotton ginned
at Mrs. Stations gin and the boy was
directed to remove some seed which
were blocking the egress of the cotton.
In some unexpected way he was caught
saws which cut and lacerated him from
e to foot, the calves OF his legs being
completely torn away. hi1karms broken
u scarcely q square foot Of his holy
untouched ~ The Nh1t5lng AW
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We neglected to mention thai on 2Sth
October in the Greater New York a
murderer named Fritz Meyer, who
killed a policeman who was attempting
to arrest him, came near losing his life
by hanging by a mob. The angry
crowd sh outed hang him." hang
him." and they were ready to do it but
for protection afforded him.
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Mama-why did you strike little
Elsie. you naughty foy. you?
Dick-well. what did she want to
cheat for. then?
Mamma-How did she cheat? e
Dick-Why. we were playing at Adam
and Eve and she had the apple to
tempt me with-and she never tempt
ed me-but went and ate it all up her
self-Tft-Bits.
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SNAPS.

Mark Hanna pitches into Bryan and
insinuates that he is a criminal and
should be put in the penitentiary. Now
let Bryan give his opinion Of Marks
deserts. The country at large believes
he is a sconndrel and should now be
breaking rock in striped clothes.
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is the the country will be called
upon to do battle against. II ever any
thing needed suppression by legisla-
ton, the cigarette does. When we
come to think of the matter, it is sur
prising that so little concern has here
tofore been manifested over the exist
ence Of this evil in our midst"
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Greensboro Record: Mr.. Hammer
brought in today specimens of a second
crop of strawberries, which are growing
on his place near the Normal. They are
Just as large and nice as any berries of
the first growth. though the supply is
not very plentiful.
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