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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-12-07
AN EXTRAORDINARY VIEW OF
BALTIMORE.
(From The Stanton Spectator-Vindi-
catOr.)

catOr.)
Baltimore has always been looked
upon as a southern city. There has
been a feeling Of kindred between it's
people and those who suffered the
hardships Of the war. and the pangs
Of defeat at it's close. No greater
pleasure has been known to many Of
them, and especially the merchants
and business men of that section, than
to visit hat city and enjoy the hos
pitality and c~ongenial society Of its
merchants and business men.
But the city has changed; the whole
atmosphere has undergone a transit
ton, a transition little looked for ten
a ago., but which has changed it
from warm congenial to cold I'M
friendiiress. The city has become a
republican city. Like Philadelphia, it
ceases to attract; it has left its friends
in their hour Of need, and has Joined
its foes, ~despoilers and humiliators.
1t lett the south and what the soutk-
ern people believe to have been their
interests at a time when they were
borne down to business depression and
| ground into poverty by maladministra-
ton and partisan legislation, at a time
when a friend would have beel a
friend indeed.
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SCULATORY

Tho following osculatory versicular
rollinS-stone comes across from Arkan-
sas. where it seems to have pretty much
gone the rounds. h Sun adds two
verses as it, contribution:
Cream and peaches once a week,
Kiss your girl on the right hand cheek;
Apples green and apples dried,
Kiss her on the other side.
Stuttgart Free Press.
That evinces wretched taste;
Take your girl about the waist,
Lift her to her pink toe-tipS,
And print it ~squarely on her lips.
Mulberry Ledger.
Seize the maiden in your arms.
Blushing in her tempting charms;
And it would, We think,
Oft 10 kiss and tightly hug her.
Camden Beacon.
Heart to heart and face TO face
Eye to eye and nose to nose;
Flippity flop and away 1t goes.
Malvern Times-Journai
What's the use of all this rhyme?
Take your girl at any time,
Squeeze her till the bushes come:
Shut your eyes and yum-yum-yum
-Russellviue Democrat.
We find our way by far the best
To set the senses in d Whirl-
Just give your own dear girl a rest,
And kiss some other fellows girl.
-LonOIke Democrat.
This is wrong: we do protest.
Tn girl she needs no rest.
Kiss once: kiss again;
Kiss often or she'll complain.
Green Forest Tribune.
To US q better way is this
With head inclined to prevent COLLISION
With arms entWined to give decision.
Just 20 ahead and kiss, kiss, kiss.
--Sprindale News.
Take the plan of Billy Grundy.
And kiss your girl all day Sunday;
Then if you possess the cheek,
Why. kiss her often through the week.
Baptist Review.
We say the best Of rules is this
A pretty girl you always kiss;
Be she the mash of any man,
Be wise and kiss her WIENER you can.
-Osceola Times.
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A MESSAGE FROM MARS.

An aerolite fell upon the earth near
BiNghampton, New York recently; at
least it is called an aerolite; but some
learned professors, who have examined 1t
Internally, find curious characters on a
piece of metal imbeded In 1t, which they
believe to be a message from the red
planet, Mars. If that Is so, 1t will be bet
ter to call together a synod of scientists.
and have them decipher 1t. II the Mar
know what 1t is. and then e can be
adopted to fire back an answer. There Is
no uee saying that It can be done. for
cant" Is an expression unworthy OF the
A6e.-A1nueapolis Journal
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POINTED

dy over bon-bon fires.
The upper ten Is composed OF the
whining nine and the umpire.
The dance they sit out Is h most
delightful to a pair or lovers.
What the average Kentucklan needs
is a waterproof coat for his stomach.
Trifies as light as hair sometimes
turn the whole course OF q mans ap-
petite.
No man ever realizes the power OF a
woman's eloquence until after he gets
married.
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Now that the epidemic of yellow fever
is at at an end in all parts of the south,
1t is time for Texas to call the whole
country's attention to this states won
derful success in preventing the dreaded
disease from touching within its borders.
Within $50 miles OF a city that was af-
f1icted with over 100 cases. and with the
disease an epidemic in a border state for
over thre months. Texas did not de-
velop more han a dozen Suspicious
fever patients n not one death. Even
the few cases that were called yellow
fever have been disputed by prominent
physicians, and the fact that the disease
did not spread would certainly lend coun-
~tenanace to the belief that not one gen
uine case Of the scourge has ben within
the confines OF this StAtA-HouStoo Post
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1t is hard to convince the defeated
candidate that it Is better to have run
and lost than not to have run at all.
after he has balanced his bank book.
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Schedule In Effect May 30. 1897.

Train H.-Leaves Wilmington 800 y. m.
arrives Lumberton 5:26 p. m. Pembroke
SAG D.. m, Maxton 6:l2 p. m. Laurinburg
6:23 p. m, Hamlet 6:53 p. m. Connects at
Hamlet with train Il for Charlotte and
Atlanta, and with train 400 for Ports
mouth, Richmond. Washington and points
North.
Train H.-Leaves Portsmouth 800 a. m.
arrives Weldon 1l:41 a. m. Raleigh $3.50 p.
m, Sanford 500 p. m. Hamlet $3.50 p. m.
Rockingham 1888 p. m, Wadesboro s:l1 p.
m, Monroe S:l2 p. m. Charlotte 1925 p.
m, Athens 3:45 a. m. and Atlanta go a
m. Connection at Weldon with train from
and all Northern points. Pull
man sleeper. Portsmouth to Nashville.
Tenn.
Train 4O3.-Leaves Washington 4:1o .. m.
Richmond $3.50 p. m, Portsmouth S:45 p.
m. Arrives Weldon 11:lO p. m. Raleigh
2:07 a. m. Sanford 1886 a. m. Hamlet $40
a.. M. Rockingham 5:23 a. m. W~adesboro
5:54 a. m. Monroe SAB a. m, Charlotte 1850
a.. m. LincoInton 1920 a. m. Shelby l1:ls
a. m. Rutherfordton 1890 noon. Athens
lis p. M, Atlanta $50 p. m. Connections
at Atlanta for all points South and West.
Pullman Sleeper. Washington to Atlanta,
and to Chester.
Train 3S.-Leaves Hamlet SGD a. m. Ar
rives Laurinburg SAG a. m. Maxton 9:5
$3.50 a. m. Wilmington l2:G5 noon. Con-
meets at Hamlet with trains from Wash
ington. Portsmouth. Charlotte and At
lanta.
AAdii foS.-ACdtCS AtidItd H." ~. ~. II
rives Athens 3:l6 p. m, Monroe $3.50 p. m.
Leaves Rutherfordton 4:35 p. m. arrives
Shelby 5:55 p. m. Lincolnton 6:5S y. m.
Charlotte Sis p. m. Monroe $40 .. m.
Wadesboro 1881 p. m, Rockingham los
p. m, Hamlet u:20 p. m. Sanford l:0z a.
m, Raleigh PIG r. m, Weldon AIS a m.
Portsmouth 7:25 a. m, Richmond 8:l8 a.
NJ, Washington 12:U noon. Pullman
| Sleepers, Atlanta to Washington and
| Chester to Portsmouth.
| Train 1s.-Leaves Hamlet 7:l5 p. m, ar
rives Gibson $40 p. m. Returning. leaves
Gibson 700 a. m. arrives Hamlet 7:50 a. m.
Train I.-Leaves Hamlet $40 a. m, ar
rives Cheraw 1000 a. m. Returning, leaves
Cheraw b:OO p. m. arrives Hamlet 6:O
p. m.
All trains daily except Nos. II and Is.
Trains make immediate connections at
Atlanta for Montgomery, Mobile. New Or
leans. Texas. California, Mexico. Chatta-
nooga Nashville. Memphis. Macon.
Florida.
For Tickets, S~leepers. etc. apply to
THOS. d. MEARES.
Genl Agent. Wilmington. ~ c.
E.. 81. JOHN.
Vice President and Genl Manager.
H. W. y. GLOVER, Traffic Manager.
v. E. McBEE. Genl Superintendent.
7. J. ANDERSON. Gen'l Pass. Agent.
General Office. Portsmouth. Va
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The Clyde Steamship Co.
NEW YORK. WILMINGTON. N. C.
AND GEORGETOWN, s. c., LINES.
LEAVE NEW YORK.

LEAVE NEW YORK.
Saturday. November q.
December 4.
FROM WILMINGTON.
Saturday, November z.
CROATAN........-Saturcay, December 4.
FOR GEORGETOWN,
Tuesday. November %.
Tuesday. December Z.
Through bills OF lading and Lowest
through rates guaranteed to and from
points In North and South Carolina
For Freight or Passage apply to
II. g.. SMALLBONES.
Superintendent
THEO. q E0ER, Traffic Manager.
Bowling Green, II. Z.
.:EYDE 4 CO. General A9sotA
= b. ONEIDA .->..>...Tuaoday. OF =
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FROM THE SOUTH.

DAILY No 54-Passenger-Leave Tam.
p. m. pa 500 a. m, Sanford $50 p. m.
Jacksonville 500 p. m, Savan.
nah las a. m, Charleston 6:3
a. m, Columbia 700 a. m. At
lanta 500 a. M, Macon $50 a
m, Augusta 3:0 p. m, Den
mark 4:50 D.. m. Sumter SIS a
m, Florence 1905 a. m, Marion
10:44 a. m. Chadbourn Has a
m. Lake Waccamaw 1910 n m
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THBOC

DAILY No. 55-Passenger-Due Lake
400 p. m. Waccamaw 500 y. m. Chad
bourn $40 p. m. Marion $40 p.
m. Florence 100 p. m. Sumter
$3.50 p. m, Columbia 1850 p. m.
Denmark $50 a. m. Augusta
500 a. m, Macon 1880 a m.
Atlanta 1915 p. m. Charleston
1855 p. m. Savannah 1:5S a. m,
Jacksonville $40 a. m. ST. Au-
gustine 1920 a. m, Tampa Gas
u. m.
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ATLANTIC COAST LINE.

Schedule in Effect November 18th. 1887.
Departures from Wilmington.
NORTHBOCND.
DAILY No. 4s-Passenger-Due Mag
s:3 A. NJ. noiia Hoo a. m. Warsaw u:i5
a. IN. Goldsboro l2:6 y. m.
Wilson le:55 y. m. Rocky
Mount lao p. m. Tarboro 2S
y. m, Weldon 4:B p. m. Peters
burg 6:3 p. m. Richmond 7:l5
p. m. Norfolk eos p. m. wash
ington 1850 p. m. Baltimore
1888 a. m. Philadelphia 3:s5 a.
m. New York 6:S a. m. lBos-
ton 800 p. m.
DAILY No. REPRESENTATIVE Mag
s:15 p. NJ. nolia SIS p. m. Warsaw $40 p.
m. Goldsboro 1910 p. m. IL
son los p. m. iTarboro 6:i5
a. m. Rocky Mount 1851 p. m.
Weldon l:47 a m. Norfolk 1880
a. m. Petersburg 3:lS a. m,
Richmond 400 a. m, Washing
ton 1:H a. m. Baltimore 9:oo a.
m, Philadelphia 1l:@ a. m.
New York 2:o3 p. m, Boston
900 p. n.
DAILY No. 50-Passenger-Due Jack
except sonville 3:5S p. m. New Bern
Sunday $50 p. m.
200 ID. m.
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ARRIVALS AT WILMINGTON-FROM
THE II

DAILY No. 49-Passenger-Leave Bos-
$50 p. m. ton l:03 p. m. New York 1900
p. m, Philadelphia 1905 a. m.
Baltimore $50 a. m, Washing
ton 4:30 a. m, Richmond 9:05 a.
m. Petersburg 1000 a. m. Nor
folk $40 a. m. Weldon 11:52 a.
m, Tarboro 12:12 p. m, Rocky
Mount fe:47 p. m, Wilson 2:3.
p. M. Goldsboro $40 p. m.
Warsaw All p. m. Magnolia
4:24 p. m.
DAILY No. 41-Passenger-Leave Bos-
$50 a. m. ton 1900 night. New York 9:3G
a. m, Philadelphia 1909 p. m,
Baltimore 2:25 p. m, Washing
ton 3:46 p. m, Richmond 7:3C
p. m, Petersburg SIP p. m,
Norfolk 2:20 p. m, Wei
don 9:43 p. m, ITarboro Col p.
M, Rocky Mount 5:45 a. m,
leave Wilson Go a. m, Goids
boro 7:O1 a. m, Warsaw 1853 a.
m, Magnolia sos a. m.
DAILY No. 51-Passenger-Leave New.
except bern 9:20 a. m, Jacksonville
SUNDAY 10:42 a. NJ.
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to them monstrous thing to change
the head of department of public
works, for example, with a change in
the administration. They no more con-
ceive of making municipal Office the
football of party politics than we do of
giving life tenure to g. competent and
faithful public servant. So the vari-
Gus councils and their boards are made
up largely of men Of vast business in
terests and wide public experience
They can be. trusted safely with the
interest of the local community when
they are men who very frequently have
participated in the government Of the
nation itself. +s
Again, the conditions of suffrage are
widely different. In some of the cities
Of Great Britain, for example, as ap-
pears from DIR. Shaw's work, there are
as many as thirteen different classes of
electors. One set of qualifications are
required for voting for members of a
board of education, another for MEM
bers Of the city council. and so on.
Universal manhood suffra ge in local
elections is the exception and lot the
rule. These conditions change the en-
tire situation. They establish a re-
semblance between a municipal cor
poration with it's council and a busi-
ness enterprise with its board of di-
rectors. Perhaps this might be best in
American cities, and perhaps not. We
are not prepared to discuss that issue,
because it is not practical. The point
is that American cities are governed
now, and will be for some time to come,
by the play Of party politics. We must
be guided by the lamp Of our own ex-
perience, and not by that Of communal
ties familiar with and working under
system unknown to US. 1t is now
generally admitted that government by
council is a failure and leads, in
American cities where it is adopted, to
perfect carnival of fraud and the
corrupt expenditure of millions of the
peoples money
1t is perfectly we'll established, by
the experience Of st. Paul, that the
system of a council composed of two
bodies insures a more wholesome scru-
tiny of local legislation, and creates OBJ
stacles to the putting through of grabs
and steals, which are absolutely neccs-
sary and will remain so while city Of
f1cers are chosen on political lines. The
Tribune's argument has no more force
than one which should attempt to
prove that we ought to abolish the
presidency and choose a hereditary
monarch instead, because England has
got along very comfortably under that
system for the last 200 years. In local
and in national affairs what we have
to study is the genius of our people
and institutions; and what we nave to
learn as to the mere form and ma
chinery of government, can be learned
best from study of our own past.
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trict for such purposes as he might
designate as best chosen to advance
his personal prospects. It contained an
aggregate appropriation Of $17,0OO,000
for rivers and harbors, apportfoned
among the unknown rfvuiets and ponds
Of the country; and this on top of
total appropriation at the last session
of over $4,000. 900 for the same pur-
pose. on the express pledge that this
would cover the needs Of the country
for many years to come. There was
added to IT a revocation of President
Clevefand's order excluding from set
Element forest reserves in different
parts Of the country, which had been
set aside on the careful recommended
ton of a competent committee, and
whose dedication as reserves is for the
interest of the whole people, in pro-
tecting our forests and preventing the
destruction of the sources of water
supply. No congress ever passed an APP
preparation bill so utterly unworthy in
all its provisions, so representative of
the worst influences that invade pub
lie life, as this
This is the dying record of a con-
gress which, even when curbed by the
resolute will of a man like Speaker
Reed, who had, at least, sense enough
to see the effect of such prof1igacy upon
public opinion, was carried by it's evil
desires to Incredible extremes. 1t was a
good thing for the country that there
was a Grover Cleveland in the White
house to stop these steals from being
railroaded through. The situation,
with certain legitimate needs of the
government unprovided for, presents
problem that the new congress and
the new president must face. The man
her in which they meet it, remember
ing the universal demand for economy
in administration and expenditure. will
go far toward determining the fate
and the place in public esteem of the
new administration
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WITH INTENT TO AMUSE.

She surveyed her lord and master he lay
snoring IN the stuper OF intoxicaton. She
wrung her hands.
''Oh. how can ne drink sou she walled
How can he?" she continued. Especial
" when don't allow him more than dol
lar week out of his salary for spending
money. indianapolis Journal
Bad Boy-What ye ta!kin' bout me goin'
to the bad place fer? Our preacher says
there is one but Johnny Stages preacher an
Guess they know bout as well as our
preacher Goes.
His Mother with Occasionally son. when
ever preacher says anything that bad boys
like to hear. you can jest make up your mind
it amt true.-New York Weekly.
You are charged with assault and battery"
said the magistrate.
Your honor. all did was to push a crazy
man gently out OF my store.
Then 1 shall have to hold you for showing
the queer. Judge.
-, There's one thing about Wagner" said
ing else he'd be great for that"
What Is it?'' asked his companion
''The girl next you can't hum Siegfried
while De Reszke is singing it.'-Harper's
Bazaar.
Mrs. Hunniker-Tm really discouraged
about our viii. don't believe he is destined
to be great man, after all.
Mr.. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., nonsense. What
has PCT that idea into your head?
Mrs Hunniker-Why, look at this letter
I've just received from him. He's been in
college two years now. and his handwriting
is still so good that you can read it right off
about like print.-Cleveland Leader.
ooh, dear Mr.. Cocker" exclaimed Mrs.
Gazzam. II am told you are an expert in
dogs do love dogs so. l have the dearest
little pug. His name is Cupid. The sweet
est little thing. just as fat as he can be-
Now, Mr.. Cocker. | want to ask you Just
one question You will tell me, l know
Certainly. Mrs Gazzam-"
Is an ocean greyhound anything like q
water spaniel?'-Harper's Bazaar.
why do you think so much more of your
father than you did before you were mar
ried?"
Because l had never lived with any other
man up to that time. Detroit Free Press.
Funnicus-I tell you, 1 find 1t pretty hard
'%erk turning out column of jokes every
day.
McCabe-Yes; evidently there's NO fun in
it.-Philadelphia North American.
George Washington" said the enthusf-
astic man, never uttered anything that was
not true,'
Yes" replied the politician. ''but that
policy was easier in those days He never
got mixed up In arguments on free silver
and arbitration and lot more Of things
that you have to take many chances on
waSQ ii comes to question of act."-Wash-
ingt6n Star.
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THE DOUBLE COVNCH

The Minneapolis Tribune falls back
upon its old standby in proposing a
city council of two chambers, and
quotes DIR. Albert Shaw as favoring a
single municipal legislature We have
as great an admiration for DIR. Shaw's
Investigations into the subject Of mu-
nicipal government and as great a re-
spect for his ability as the Tribune, but
1t has been heretofore pointed out that
he is in error in applying to American
cities some Of the conclusions that are
drawn from the experience of cities in
Great Britain and on the continent. DIR.
Shaw has laid, in his studies of na1nic
ipal government, what may fairly he
called the foundations of a new branch
of economic science. But the cunclu-
sions which he draws from them are
abstract and theoretical, and are.
therefore, limited and modified by local
conditions
This is we'll illustrated in another
particular. Two years ago the Tribune
and all the ether papers Of Minnaa polls
were insisting upon government by
council committees. and opposing Wig
orously the system Of boards appointed
by the mayor, and were quoting DR..
Shaw just as freely in support Of their
views. They have now abandoned that
position. because they have had sad
experience of the abuse of a council
free to work it's will with the money Of
the taxpayers. The same experience
that has convinced them of one error
ought to be enough to convince them
of the other. 1t is true that some Of
government in existence in Great Brit
ain not only have a council of one
chamber, but they have practically all
municipal power vested in that bcdy
and exercised through it's committee.
We are not prepared to say that this
system may not be admirable for the
conditions that exist in foreign cities. We
do know that it Is altogether unified
to ours.
The gentlemen who rely upon
these arguments from alien experience
forget to note two all-important differ
ences between the English and CONT
mental municipal administration and
ours. The first of these is the fact
that in city governments abroad impor-
tant public posts are held not often NV
active politicians. but generally by ex-
perts in each particular line The head
of a sanitary department, for exanple
may be a professor of the highest rank
who receives big salary, and who
would no more be disturbed in his Of
| fee by a change in party power than
a king or emperor would think Of re-
signing because Liberal government
gives place to a Conservative majority
This custom Is of ancient establish
ment 1t is inherited and fmbeddad in
the minds of the people. 1t would he
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angry roar What conclusion follows?
That there is not popular opposition to
consultations per Sc, but only to the
rapacious use of the strength gained.
This, Of course, does not touch the
ethics or legal aspects of the question,
but 1t reveals a condition Of public
opinion that must be taken into ac-
count by any student of the differenti-
atoms of industrial methods.
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applied was laid by the faltering hands
that are smeared with the blood of
Christian slain. The nations have
sown the wind, and the whirlwind is
rising in its dread majesty.
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AL0NZ0 ]. AGAIN.

Whfteman Arrested I'm New York for
Grand Larceny.
NEW YORK. March e.-AIonzo J.
Whiteman, aged thfrty-seven years,
was arrested today on a warrant charg-
ing grand larceny in the first degree
1t is alleged that he has defrauded the
Columbia bank out of $500 by means
of fraudulent draft for SO. 600. White
man has been in trouble before in this
city and in the far West. He was a
state senator in Minnesota.
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form, and to advance our educational
interests. We cannot commend this
movement too highly, and we ask for
it again the hearty cooperation of all
our people.
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TEMPERATURES.
DAILY MEANS.

Barometer, 80 80; thermometer, II; relative
humidity. 49, wind east; weather, cloudy;
maximum thermometer, 18; minimum Their
ed snow in last twenty-four hous trace.
Note-Barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation. p f. Lyons Observer
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
TODAY'S WEATHER.

WASHINGTON. March 6.-Forecast for
Sunday: Mnnesota-Party cloudy weather.
probably light SHOWS; easterly winds; not so
cold in northwest portion.
misunderstanding cloudiness and prob
ably local SHOWS; a slight rise in tempera-
tUre; eaSterly winds.
The Dakotas-Threatening, and light SHOWS /;
southeaster!y winds; not cold
Montana-Lght SHOWS; not cold; varia-
BILE winds.
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Pygmalion-What Is the matter, my love?
Galatea (pouting}-You have given me such
an questionable waist!-Chicago Tribune.