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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-12-03

News reaches us that there are con-
siderable changes taking place with
the Hotel Kennon, at Goldsboro. Mr..
L. T. Brown, who was for a number of
years manager of the Marlborough
House and more recently connected
with the Park House, Raleigh, is to
become the manager of the Kennon,
while Mr.. B.. H. Griffin, the present
proprietor, is to continue in that posi-
ton. There is, it is said, to be a gen.
eral overhauling and refitting Of the
Kennon, and there is a determination
on the part of Messrs riffin and Brown
to make it second to no hotel in that Sec
ton Of the state. These gentlemen are
both experienced hotelists and are
known to thousands of the travelling
public and others. They make an I'M
usually strong team, and the fact that
they are associated in the management
of the Kennon, is a guarantee that it
is to be an up-to-date house for all
who may chance to pass tina way.
The Messenger wishes Messrs. Griffin
and Brown much success in the man.
agement of the already popular Hotel
Kenno
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-12-03
PUBLIC OPINION

Ex-Minister Taylor is OF the opinion
that the president should turn the Cuban
question over to congress-. That is I'M
doubtedly what he will do. Evidently the
president thinks. however, that the new
Spanish ministry should have opportunity
to try its policy Of Cancellation and HUI
mainly. A few weeks ought 20 suffice to
show the character Of that as we'll as Its
efficiency as a mean OF pacifying the
Cubans.-Syracuse Standard.
Edward Moran was killed on the Ele-
waited road on Tuesday because he was in
a hurry. To catch a train and save a
minute he rushed across the track-to
his death. Moran was typical of the
average American business man, who is
always rushing pell-meH to his destina-
ton. and when he gets there usually finds
that he has time on his hands. We are
forever rushing and tearing to business
and taking things leisurely when We get
there. This is the land of bolted break
fasts and gobbled lunches. the land OF
dyspepsia and all Its attendant ills-New
York Herald.
The arrant misconduct and riotous dis
order of which the students of our lead
ing American colleges and universities
are So often guilty. finds no other parallel
in authentic history than that furnished
by London apprentices a century or more
ago. Each trade or calling had its college
or guild, n every one OF these had its
body of apprentices, h in compact
bodies, prowled the streets OF the city
seeking some rival or inimical body, and
making night hideous with their fights
and bowls. Probably when our collegians
consider what a low and vulgar example
they are following. their pride may re-
strain them from pursuing it further. Ir
any case, however, they are breeding a
bullying insolence and violence in them.
selves that augur i'll for their future
h country does require colleges and
universities to supply us with
and brawlers; and those young gentle
ment will find the field we'll Occupied with
foemen worthy of their muscle when they
enter on their careers. What is their
blood, birth, breeding, education, wealth
and social standing worth. if, after all
they find their full equals in the rowdies
and brawlers graduated in the purlieus
and slums of our cities?-Norfolk Pilot.
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Farewell Ball

Howard Relief Social Club gave dts
farewell ball last night at Adrian hall,
which hereafter is to be turned over to
the paid fire department. Professor
Miller's orchestra furnished the music,
and there was a good attendance,
about twenty-five couples participating
in the dance. AT midnight Mrs. P. N.
Flick served n Of her splendid sup
pers. and in all respects the occasion
was a most successful and enjoyable
one.
The committee managing the affair
consisted of those clever gentlemen,
Messrs. Geo. H. Heyer, Charles Schnib-
ben, VIM. H. Koenig and Henry
Geischen.
1t is probable that the club will soon
be r~eorganized under another name.
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Laid to Rest

All that was earthly of the 1amented
Mrs. Julia a. Morrill, was laid in the
tomb yesterday afternoon at Oakdale
cemetery. The funeral services took
place at 4 p. m. at the residence of her
daughter, Mrs. Augusta Farrow, I'll
North Fifth street, and were solemnly
and impressively conducted by the
Rev. w. b. Oliver and the Rev. J. w.
Kramer. There was a large attend
ance of relatives and friends, and the
remains were sorrowfully followed to
their resting place. Beautiful flowers
were tenderly laid upon the grave. The
~Pallbearers were Major D.. O'Connor,
Captain E. w. Manning, Captain Jas.
NJ. MCGOWAN, and Messrs. s. l..
Smith, John McDougald and T. w.
Wood.
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LITERARY GOSSIP

When Peter Ibbetson' appeared
Mt The Messenger spoke Of it's original
fty, beauty and strength, promising
much for the future, and showing that
"A new force had appeared in litera-
xure. Subsequently it was noticed that
its reception had not been commensu-
rate with it's merits, that it was be-
yond all fair question a novel of ex-
~-ceeding interest and of very unusual
artistic qualities, suggesting the great
Thackeray in places. Since then Du-
Maurier has published "TriIby," that
ma such an extraordinary sale all
around the English reading world.
sThen followed his p~osthemous novel,
80 full of tenderness n human in
xerest, and with here and there such
rare touches of personal incidents, in
the quasi auto-biographic vein. OF
these the weakest, the most unsatisfac-
tory, the most inartistic is 1.-The Mar
xian." 1t is far below the first, and
quite inferior to the second. There is
no doubt of this, as may be seen by
consulting the foremist critics in Eng
Hand and the north. Du Maurier might
have equaNed Peter Tbbetson" if he
had lived longer and had been blessed
with vigorous health. He was undoubt-
eddy a man of very genuine gifts. Of
real endowment as to the literary fac
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-12-03
BABY's SMOOTH, FAIR SKIN
A Grateful Mother Writes this Letter.
Tolls all about Her Troubles when

A Grateful Mother Writes this Letter.
Tells all about Her Troubles when
Baby Broke out with ScrofuIa Sores.
"At the age of two months, my baby
began to have sores break out on his right
cheek. We used ali the external ap-
plications that we could think or hear Of,
to no avail. The sores spread all over one
side of his face. We consulted a physi-
clan and tried his medicine, and in a week
the sore was gone. But to my surprise in
two weeks more another scrofulous look
ing sore appeared on baby's arm. It
grew worse and worse, and when he was
three months old, I began giving him
Hoods Sarsaparilla. I also took Hoods
Sarsaparilla, and before the first bottle
was finished, the sores were well and have
never returned. He is now four years old,
but he has never had any sign of those
scrofulous sores since he was cured by
Hoods Sarsaparille, for which feel very
grateful. My boy owes his good health
and smooth, fair skin to this great med
icine." MRS. 8. s. WRorEN, Farming
ton, Delaware. Get only Hoods.
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Is IT A DEADLY Hl1ow7

Heigho. At last a reaction Is on
against the germ theory. We some how
expected this. The pendulum had
swung so far in n direction-every
thing was from a germ-that In time
It was sure to swing to the other ex-
treme n be rejected Perhaps In this
as in almost all things else the middle
way is the safe, the sure way. DIR.
Thomas Powell. at Los Angeles. Cali
fornia, declares that he has taken into
his system during the last ten years,
both by vaccination and subcutaneous
injection, germs Of the most deadly
diseases. He believes germs incapa-
BILE of successfully assailing the tissues
Of the living body: hat they are the
results, n not the cause, OF disease,
and bring about decomposition of the
obstructing matter which constitutes
predisposition to the disease, causing
it to be passed out OF the blood. DR..
Powell does not believe germs Of viru-
! lent diseases to be in all cases harm
less, but where they prove dangerous
an acquired or hereditary predisposi-
| ton to that particular disease must
exist.
In the presence of twenty-five doc
tors he o the baciHi Of typhoid, in
closed in gelatine capsules. into the
stomach. Then he took the bacilli of
simultaneous incubation. The physi-
clans found no effect had been made
upon pulse, respiration, or tempera-
ture. some of DR.. Powelrs patients
and members of his family have sub
mitted to similar experiments. with
the same results. DR.. Powell offers to
take into his system, in the presence
of any jury of physicians. the germs OF
any deadly disease that have been cul-
tivated, if he be given time to eradi-
cate from his system any predisposi-
ton to the disease the germ repre-
sents.
But this is not all that is recent. A
learned bishop who has been in the
east travelling, has grown sceptical as
to the much cOddled germ theory. He
went where filth abounded and the re-
suit is he rejects the theory. His health
steadily improved in the mid Of filth
and yet he thinks that while at Jeru-
salem he must have, in various ways
filled himself with what the doctors
call malignant germs. So possibly an.
other theory has received a black eye
it will carry around. If DR.. Powell can
toned in two exchanges-and if the
good bishop can fatten on germs and
grow better in health what is to be-
come of the theory that seemed Sc
we'll based? Is it a deadly blow?
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thankful.

Lord TennysOn was a close, careful
winnOwer Of his own verse. and
throughout his very protracted literary
life brought to bear upon his own COM
position a stern judgment never wrong
in it's critical conclusions. He omitted
much he wrote. His son, after CONSUL
tation with literary friends, publishes
in his most admirable life of his faith
er, a good many of the rejected poems.
Some of the new ones are of very de-
cided excellence and interest. For in
stance he left out several stanzas in his
superb poem on the Dream of Fair
Women" We copy two of these which
will interest the lover of true poetry:
$50, lifted high, the poet at his will
Lets the great world fit from him,
seeing all,
Higher thro' secret splendors, mount
ing still
Self poised, nor fears to fall,
Hearing apart the echoes of his fame.
While 1 spoke thus the scotsman
Memory
Sow'd my deep-furrowed thought with
many a name
Whose glory will not die"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-12-03

Those who have been interested in
the opinions of men and books in these
columns will remember probably that
we have referred many times during
the last six or eight years to Samuel
Taylor Coleridge, as one of the mas
terful men of the last hundred years.
We remember to have quoted from DR..
Thomas Arnold Of Rugby, that the
highest intellect seen in England since
Milton was Coleridge. We refer to
him here to say again that he was one
OF the most richly endowed poets in
England Of his century. He is not
much read, nor are his exquisite gifts
generally understood, but he was in
deed a master in inspiration and in the
technique Of poetry and has been
scarcely rivalled in this century of
poets. We quote from a fine paper on
Tennyson in "Literature:"
Ito the poetry Of Coleridge, perhaps
the only poet, or the only one since
Milton, who ranks with him as a mas
ter of melody, Tennyson was devoted,
his especial favorites being The An
cient Mariner 'C~hristabel,' and the
fr~agmentary strain of unearthly dream
music 'Kubla Khan"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-12-03
THE CEREAL CROP OF 1897

We are always doubtful Of statistics,
and there is so very much guessing.
We have seen newspapers Of two par
ties present the opposite results in
which figures count. The grain har-
vest of the present year is given, but
in the very nature of things it is more
or less speculative-a guess. How close
the figures are to facts, we may not tell
Or even know. But they may be practi-
York Financial Chronicle publishes
what it guesses at, basing it's calcula-
tions for 1897 upon the acreage (an-
other guess) and condition percentages.
Here are the figures for five years:
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Work on the Artesian Well at Hilton

Messrs. Thompson & Storey. c~ontrac-
tors for the Clarendon Waterworks
Company's Pinch artesian we'll, began
drilling IN the we'll at Hilton yester-
day afternoon at 2:30 O'Clock. They got
down about twenty feet and got in one
section Of casing. The drill passed
through sand and about two feet thick
ness OF shells. An early start win be
made this morning and 1t is expected
that by night the well will reach q
depth Of 100 feet Or more.
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house Of Pointe Ste. Marie. lying mid
way between New Orleans and -
Guif. NEGROES were. In the majority.
even on the jury.
Judge Lafrance was stout n very
warm. He was not without Wiz In nie
method OF abbreviating trials IN mid
summer.
ION accoun. Of the heat We will hold
court ont OF doors" announced the
Judge. The hot little court room had
been emptied OF Its benches The judge
sat on a mall wooden ,aicony In mont
of the courthouse with ais Panama hat
on. The balcony had a trifie Of shade.
but the jury sat where he shade would
not reach them till late afternoon: the
defense sat. likewise, In the sun. and
the audience followed suit
Hats of before the court!' said
Judge Lafrance. and the preliminaries
to the trial OF Baptiste Moran were IN
order.
The prosecuting attorney felt a. II
his eloautnce and his argument alike
were oozing out Of his heated
The defence cut his flight OF oratory
down to a silhouette Of the case. The
witnesses proved the horrible manner
in which Baptiste had been voodooed:
the cost OF getting a voodoo doctor tn
remove the spell. and the no count"
character OF the "yaller coon" To this
they added that Baptiste was suffering
so with remorse hat he could not sleep
at nights for %groaning about the lake
Of re-"
Baptiste's wife wept vociferousiy
through the whole proceedings. and de-
livered a monologue on the virtues OF
her husband. Nobody troubled her as
long as she did not yell too long.
The judge charged the jury. and they
repaired TO the hot jury room TO DELHI
crate. The negro majority were for
acQuittal-on the evidence. not on the
judges charge.
What do you say" asked one OF the
white majority OF the others.
"Oh. he seems a pretty quite sort of
! Niger, with no sense: he never was
troublesome before. say. . few
years in the penitentiary."
The negroes began TO argue the case
The heat and odor In the tiny jury
! room were sitting. The people outside
were impatient: the judge sent In to
know il they hadn't reached a. verdict.
I've got a long ride for dinner. and
, I'm blessed II / wait in this room an
other minute on any niger. Wen
hang him and be done with it." said
the foreman.
The negro jurymen pleaded for their
verdict; outside the wife OF the &C
cused howled dismally.
Presently the foreman handed the
Judge the verdict:
"Justifable homicide in self defence.
We recommend the prisoner to the
mercy of the court"
The attorneys grinned and mopped
their brows; the judge frowned. as he
pronounced sentence, at the foreman or
the jury.
lone year of hard labor, in the state
pe~nitentiary," he said. The court now
stands adjourned until 2 o'clock this at
t%ernoon."
N. B.-Phosphorus and vegetable gas
seem to charge lakes in the lower Lou
isiana marshes as with fire.
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ulty, a peculiar and very unmistalca-
BILE development late in life. q writer
books quite put OF the common. and
touch revealing genius n a heart
overlooking with pathos and sympa- |
thy for his fellow men. 1t Is quite
noticeable in all the interesting papers
concerning his death and his works
that we have seen from foremost crit
les that we nave read, not one fails to
emphasize the fact that his greatest
triumph was his first novel. We do not
believe that any capable critic will
gainsay the judgment. His success with
'"Trilby'' killed him. He over-taxed his
intellectual pr~oductiveness and died
before the last child Of his genius was
seen by the reading world. The secon
number of London Literature" heads
a discussion OF Du Maurier with "A
Tragic Success" 1t is not a highly ap-
preciative discussion, but Is not unkind
IL candid 1t shows the calmness OF
judgment as well as Of candor so es-
sential in true criticism. We copy a
few sentences. showing what in Eng
land will be the fnal valuation:
True it may be that it was upon the
photographed element in his three
books that Mr.. Du Maurier's enormous
public fixed: in the case, indeed, OF the
second of the three this truth is too
obvious to need insisting upon
| Nor need we doubt that. when the as
a % Ill hO1 800 q
forth Du Maurier's earlier and incom-
parably' finer novel from the shadow
| of unmerited neglect, it was again from
the photographic chapters Of Peter
Ibbetson,' from the exQuisitely told
story of the authors childish days in
the Partisan suburb, that they drew
| such pleasure as the book was capable
Of affording them. He had moth
ing new to say, and he must ave been
conscious of it; but the public invited
him-bribed him. in fact, with glitter
ing offers-to say the old things over
again. The result was The Martian,'
another great commercial success, but.
from the artistic point Of view, a COM
parative failure"
Alas! the really charming writer will
produce no more either to excite crit
ical discussion or to entertain his large
constituency. The cunning hand lies
stiff and the warm heart is still, and
the productive brain no longer creates
those scenes that in his books preserve
a perennial freshness that will not de-
part with the frOStS of man, winters.
zone forever is the gracious, lovable
man who so overran with pl%easantries
and quips and delightful talk. Let the
world be glad for what it has and be
thankful.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-12-03

Some editors "ho set in fine rooms
on easy cushioned chairs and draw big
salaries indite decorated editorials in
floral style over the fine times and the
glorious prosperity who really know
nothing Of the actual condition OF the
people and struggles OF the poor, Gods
people. This world Is given over to
humbug.
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The Chicago Market

Chicago, December Wheat was
firm today, but very dull until about
twenty minutes from the close OF the
session., when it started on a decline
that left 1t 81 to &c lower for May
than Ii closed yesterday. Lack OF ex-
port demand was apparently the weak
ening feature finally. Corn. oats and
provisions were all dull and price
changes at the close were -insignificant.
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The republican revolt is on I'm Ohio.
Hanna has been marked for slaughter by
the factionists in his own party. The OPP
portunity of the latter is the small mar
gin of the republican majority in the
legislature 1t Is possible for the defeat
Of the Cleveland boss to be comrassed by
a coalition between the anti-Hanna re-
publicans and the democrats. The latter
can not elect one OF their own party
to the senate. Then 1t becomes their
duty to accomplish the next best thing
by uniting to defeat the one man whose
overthrow means for the democracy the
greatest moral victory won in many
City Times.
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Deputies Fight With MOonshinOrs

Washington, December deputy
Commissioner Wilson. OF the internal
revenue bureau, has received the fol-
lowing telegram. dated yesterday from
Revenue Agent Furgeson at Greenville,
S. c., in regard to the fight with moon
shiners: Deputy Collectors Philips and
Dave Steward were on a
raid today by Eli Pittman. Please
offer reward at once" The department
has Instituted an investigation and a
reward may be offered later.
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England has ben visited by the most
destructive gales it has had in many
years. They swept over the entire
coast. and death was sown by h
winds. Many large vessels were driven
on the rocks and foundered and all on
capped. and several were submerged.
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Clement &. Moore wrote in 1922 that
famous poem "A Visit from st. Nicho-
las" It will live through the centu-
ries probably.
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President Andrews, northern, says
that it is true that England has the
United States in a species Of colonial
dependence, because of enormous
debts. due her on this side Of the
water"
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Total s,2os, O52, 900 a,512, $40, 1s5 1856, 7s7, S7s

Totals ..............2 z, 423, 2O2, 476 1850, 91, CAT
1t makes the crop for the present
year considerably less than for 1896 or
1895. 1t is still a good yield, gives abun-
dance for man n beast, and if prop
erly distributed would prevent all star
walton and suffering for want Of food
among the poorer classes. But unfor-
t%unately wheat is the only one OF the
important five products considered,
that fetches live and let live prices.
The rise in wheat is as is generally
known now, caused solely by the short
supply in foreign countries. If the
harvests abroad shall be large and gen.
eral wheat will drop in price. It means
higher prices for American b~readwin-
ners, but more business for railroads
and steamships.
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After the powers are done Will
Greece there will hardly be enough lef
to grease a dinner for Turkey.
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We all know thai the trusts flourish
greatly under a high robber tariff. Let
the country try an experiment and see
how it will be under a genuine low
tariff-one for revenue only.
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game compared with II. But a Rev.
Cullen OF Yale. thinks 1t delightful and
highly innocent. Which Is the man
who can not see?
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SNAPS.

The cry is in the north plenty of
murders n no hangings."
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"A Spanish bull fighter saw the Yale
Princeton fight. He was appalled,. He
thinks bull fighting a gay and festive
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D.tu are prompt, efficient and
l1OOQ s f71lbS easy in effect. Is cents.
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n. B.-Phosphorus and vegetable gas
seem to charge lakes in the lower Lou
isiana marshes as with fire.
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month later q perspiring crowd.
sataeTeo about the stufy little court.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-07-30
Hall Township Business

Notice is hereby given that the under
signed, Trustee of Hall township, will
attend to township business on each Sat
nrday. Of the year, at my office, and per
sons having township business to tran
sact are required to present it TO him on
Saturdays.
The township library will also be found
at my office near Rosamond, and the cit
liens are invited to call there for library
books.
The Indiana Series of School books
may be had at my office, and at John ].
Meschede's, in Celestine.
LEVI l.. Jacobs,
- Trustee Hall township.
Aug. 3, lS96,-y