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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-09-14
Quaint Old CuracaO.

Curacao is Dutch colony, and the
quaintest little island in the world.
1t is not bigger than the District OF
Columbia, but has about 40, 900 in.
habitants, and has played an impor.
tant part in the history of America.
1t has belonged at different times to
England, Spain and Holland. and its
coZy harbor has been the scene
of many bloody battle between
the navies of the old world, as
we'll as between the pirates and buc.
cancers that infested the caribbean
sea for two centuries. 1t has been for
100 years and still is an asylum for
political fugitives, and many of the
revolutions that rack and wreck the
republics on the Spanish main are
Matched under the shelter of the pre-.
tentious bnt harmless fortresses that
guard its port. Bolivar, Santa Anna
and many other famous men in Span.
ish- American history have lived there
in exile, and until recently there was
an imposing castle upon one OF the
hills called Bolivar's Tower. There
the founder OF five republics lived in
Punishment for several years aud wait
ed for rescue.
The houses are built in the Dutch
style. exactly like those in Holland I;
the streets are so narrow that the peo.
pie can almost shake hands through
their windows with their neighbors
across the way, and the walls are as
thick AS would be needed for a for.
tress. The Dutch governor lives in q
solemn-looking old mansion fronting
the Shattegat, or lagoon. that forms
the harbor, guarded by o company Of
stupid-lo0king soldiers with n few old.
fashioned cannon. The entire island
is OF phosphatcs, and the government
receives revenue OF $500, 900 from
companies that ship them away. =
Chicago Record.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-09-14
Farm and Garden Notes.

Keep your dust box full OF dry dusr
and keep it where the hens can get a
it at will.
Sound, sweet feed, plenty of grit
freedom from lice, pure water. Thes,
are the requirements to maintain goo,
health in chicks from healthy stock.
Let fowls have free run of the clover
field two or three times q week, turn
ing them into it during the later par
Of the day, but never after u rain O
in the early morning when the dew il
ON the grass.
Dry sand has heen found the bes
material for putting in henhouses, a
with that the manure mixes withou
caking up, but where such sand is no
10 be easily obtained dry loan or ros,
dust is an excellent substitu to.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-09-14
! FOR FARM And GARDEN.
Cows Eating straw. .

Wherever much grain is grown, and
the grain is stacked in the barnyard,
It is necessary to build II stack around
it to keep COWS from eating it. Freshly
threshed straw, even when all the
grain is out. is palatable to cows Mt
this season of the year. But they
should be kept from it If the milk
yield is to be maintained. Even II
little straw will dry OH the COW very
fast, aud il grain is fed with it, the
effect will only he to fatten the COW
rather than to keep up the milk
flow.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-09-14

II was midsummer in the Klondike,
bat the air was az chill AZ it is when
vedchesksd Canadisns start journey
Ing on snow-shoes over crisp fields Of
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-09-14

To give an alarm when any prede-
termined temperature Is reached a
new thermometer has wires inserted In
the side OF the tube to complete an
electric circuit a. soon as the mercury
rises. the wire being led TO u switch
board. which 10 set at any desired tenn
perature.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-09-14

A statist,cien has estimated that an
average man OF so years old worked
$500 days, has slept 6.o00 has amused
himself 1000, has walked 1900 miles.
has been i'll 500 days. has partaken S6.-
and 1000 pounds OF fish. eggs and
vegetables. and drank 1000 gallons of
fluid.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-09-14
cubsps % TO work.

The Cubans at Santiago have begun
to disarm. Two hundred OF them
came In from their camp at FL cobre
the other day. turned their arms over
to Gen. Lawton and asked for work.
They were given employment on the
water front and win be paid In ratlons.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-30
The Wessengr,
ON MONEY.

When the interest law vas changed
by the combine The Messenger opposed
it upon the ground that money ought
to bring it's value like anything else.
That it was unjust discrimination TO
put a limit on a mans money at 4 or
9 per cent. IL he lent it as money, but
if he put it into hailroad stocks, or
merchandise or farming or futures or
I'm any form of investment, he might
lawfully make all the profit he could,
whether it was 20. so or 100 per cent.The
question Of morality is not involved in
the above manner of statement. 1t
may be immoral to make excessive
profits as it may be immoral to gouge
or Cypress by excessive interest, but
is one more immoral than the other?
If money is worth s per cent. and a
man desiring to use it is willing 10
pay s per cent. because he can Oxford
to bear that interest, we hold 1t as
equitable, as right, as fair as 1t would
be for the owner of the cash to turn it
into dry goods or lumber or groceries
or medicines and drugs and make the
usual average profits. If not, why not?
People are compelled to eat, to wear
clothing, to take medicine when sick
and to live in houses. Is it a greater
iniquity to compel them to pay in in
terest what money will fetch at a CIV
en- time, than to pay round profits on
the articles for consumption? If so,
why? What is usury? Is it necessity
limited in application Of money? Is ex-
tortion only applicable to money? We
trow not. No one so believes. At
present money is a ~drug-very low. It
can be obtained in the north, we
think, for 3 or 4 per cent. Ought not
those who demand the profits of
money to be limited by law to 6 per
cent, to urge the passage of a law
that no one shall borrow money for
less than 6 per cent? The law ought
to be just-ought to work both ways.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-30
THE CULTIVATION OF THE
OYSTER.

Many times has The Messenger call
ed attention to the very little product
in the oyster fields of our state. 1t
lately discussed it and showed how
Connecticut without an oyster to begin
with, by procuring oysters in Mary
land and Virginia waters, had planted
them in Long Island sound, and that
the product has surpassed 1000, 900 an
mually. The North Carolina product is
less than 5000, 900. Why shall not u
people wake up and take advantage of
the great opportunities for producing
oysters? No state whatever is so well
Watered, and no southern state has bet
ter advantages than our own state for
a large producing of the oyster ana
inperfection. Some of the oysters
grown are of good size and fine flavor.
The industry has not been fostered as
it should be. The God of nature mas
indeed done great things for North
Carolina. but the people, to a consld-
cradle extent, have failed to recognize
them and to avail themselves OF the
advantage and opportunities. Les
sons might be learned by legislators by
studying the Maryland and Virginia
plans in developing the industry THAI
can be made a source of much proht
and Of no little comfort to tens OF
thousands of the people of the state
who rarely if ever see a luscious bl-
valve, one of the most Oh
all edibles given by a benignant Crea-
tor to the hungry children of men. The
celebrated Christopher North" in his
charming "Noctes AmbrOsianae,' cele'
brates the excellence of the oyster, on
of the chief blessings Of the gastrono'
mic crowd in appetizing language
What is really more grateful to TIL
taste than the large, fat. delicious bi
valvular molusk that is so neglected II
she North Carolina waters?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-30

The Philadelphia Times writing of
North Carolina matters. praises another
worthy colored brother in black" 1t
SAYS:
Next to Bishop Hood, Professor S.
G. Atkins, of the Slater Industrial
Academy and State Normal School of
Winston, n. c., is generally accepted
as one of the most intelligent and hon.
est advisers of the colored a &c. He
fully agrees with the views presented
by Bishop Hood, and these prominent
leaders of the colored race are now ac-
complishing a great work by struggling
to bring the two races into harmony
on a basis of substantial unity of in
t~erest."
These two colored men, n Presi-
dent Dudley, of the Greensboro Colored
Agricultural and Mechanical College,
are in sympathy with all of the ADLER
and wiser men of their ace who have
written in regard to their race in the
south and their wisest course to pur-
sue. President Booker Washington,
Parson Miller, and others from whom
The Messenger has copied, stand to-
gether in the important disturbing
racial question. 1t will be we'll if their
race shall heed their advice.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-30
BREyITIES.

The Charleston News and Courier
writes strongly of Senator Hoar's
speech in that city and calls it great
The commission reports that the Mic
aragua canal will cost s135, 600. 900 and
estimate DIV. Uncle Sam is carving
enough on his shoulders now without
adding to the great burden.
The anti-expansion army bill calls
for $4,000 men-30,0O0 regulars and al
auxiliary Of 1000 volunteers. This is
much better than the 100, 900 standing
army nj with its vast cost.
Russia is in a financial strait and
wants to borrow a pile from Uncle
Sam.
In Paris report says the last drink
is the petroleum cocktail
Hobso will lower his reputation if
he does not abandon his kissing tour.
He registers now nearly 600 kisses of
white ome His kissing capacity is
large.
Iowa democrats meet and formulate
a platform. They declare for bimelta-
lism but do not mention the ratio.
They oppose fusion, expansion, annex
alton and increase of army. Good.
There is a considerable negro exodus
from Greenwood county, in South Car
DINA. Several hundred will 60.
Near Leesburg, Ca, a first-cIass
lynchiIg is expected. The details are
thus given:
1.-TWO negroes went to the house of
5. 5. Moroney, a white farmer, knock
ed him down and bound him fast They
then committed a double assault on
the person of bis wife, and after rob-
bling the house of everything of value
they could carry away, left"
If caught it will be easy to tell their
fate.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-30
A BAD LEADER.

The negroes have some very I'M
fortunate teachers and advisers. Some
of the preachers write and speak very
unwisely. Among the frantic, fanati-
cal, extreme leaders in the north is one
Thomas Fortune, who edits a PAPER in
New York City, and is a very fierce
exponent of his people. He has posed
for years as a thinker and speaker Of
the more pretentious educated class.
But he is really without prudence
and wisdom and taste. He recently
spoke in Washington and abused
President Mckinley in a vic lent strain.
1t is made because of his moderate
and liberal views during his recent
trip into the south. This Thomas For
tune was openly, defiantly for mixed
schools-for both races-and declared
himself for m-iscegenation, a~malgama-
ton, mixed marriages. Like old Fred
Douglass this particular Fortune may
be dissatisfied with the women of his
own race, and has his Eyes set upon
the handsome daughter of some rich
White ~negrophitist up there" This
blatherskite and ranter will do infin-
itely more harm to his race in the
south by such mental bushwhacking
than he can ever do good in a century
with his pen. He surely has not the
welfare of his race at heart or he
would be more discreet, more moder-
ate, less of an ass The Baltimore
Herald, republican, says of his last es-
capade as a talker, that he defended
mixed schools as we'll as marriages
with a brutality which must shock
| every person of refinement. He con-
| cal rights, but was equally outspoken
in favor of absolute social equality.
"Such utter in~sensibility to the pro-
p~rieties as was exhibited by the
speaker is indicative of an exceeding
ly low intellectual level. Unfortunate
ly, the colored population of the coun-
try furnishes many examples of this
sort. If Fortune, who had hitherto
been regarded as a man of culture, de-
scends to coarseness, what car be ex-
pected of the illiterate blacks who live
amid surroundings that are in no wise
elevating?"
To show what an unmitigated foo
this negro editor up north is he ex-
pressed a desire to assassinate the
president. Ee ought to be locked up
One paper thinks it is not Mckinley
who should be killed, but the brayins
ass who expresses a wish to murdeI
him. Fortune said:
sr r c-lA e. -.
ring to the ~president) to fight for me
and if he don't I feel like stabbin,
him. 1 want mixed schools, mixet
marriages and mixed churches"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-30

Is on hand n anything you want In
the Toy line we have it ready to show
YOU
An extensive line Of Dolls from &c to
s1.5o. An ~unbreakable Doll from soc
to- $1.25. All kinds of patent Iron Toys
Fire Engines, Hook n Ladder
Trucks, Milk Wagons. etc Foot Balls
srom 35c to 75c and up. Drums Csc TO
800; Rubber Toys, Balls, Dolls, etc.
Tin Toys of all kinds, Horses from sc
10 25c. A nice Piano from Csc to $1.00.
Tool Chests, Saw and Buck, Picture
Blocks. A blackboard and Easel for
25c; a larger one for SOC. Toy Pistols
and rams. A nice Air Rife for 500
Sidebeards from sc up to 75c. Dell
Carriages from 25c to 81. 50. Doll era
dies for SOC. Novelties in Toys of a..
kinds. Our Toy Department is noted
for being Santa Claus headquarters.
Oar Millinery Department is a scene
Of activity from morning till might. La
dies Hats, trimmend and uptrimmed
alb the leading styles. 1t will pay you
to look over cur large assortment
just received q lot of Velvets to run
at SOC, 75c and s1.00 and upward.
Capes and Jackets we handle In
large quantities and at prices that com
pei you to buy. A nice Fur Trimmed
Cape from Zoe up to 81 rs. Ar Astrakan
Cape for S1.7A One with Box Pleat 70.
$500. Nice quality of Melton Braid OF
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-30
I'll HOLIDAY

Jet. Trimmed frcm yz.3O to $6.25. Hand
sorae Plush Capes from $50 TO $500.
Nine Jackets fr1m $3.50 up to $1,000.
Skirts OF all kinds. A nice figured
Brilliantine SKIRT for 800. Better
Ssifts for s1.503 $500 and UP. A nice
line of Silk and Satin Skirts from s5.0a
tn, $3.50.
Just laid in a large assortment OF
Handkerchiefs~ for the Holiday Trade.
Il nice real Linen Handkerchief for
t2hc, 15c and 25c-big value. Nice En-
l proidered ones from loo 10 1Sc and up.
| ward. White Silk ones for 35c and Soc
. that n be matched elsewhere. A
nice quality OF cambria HemstitcheG
for SC.
Men and Boys Ctoshing. A fine line.
of Black clay Wozsted Suits from s.
to $1,000. Good all wool Suits from $500
to $500 and on up. These suits we Al
give you in all coiors. Youths SuIta
from $50 up. A nice Brown Plaid
Suit for $500. Odd P,nts from soc up
TO $500.
Truns OF Ill kinds. Packing Trunks
| 25c to 100. A Zinc Covered Trunk
1 from 81 90 up to $500. Flat Top Canvas
| Covered Trunks at all ~prices-s2.50 80.
| $500. $3.50. etc.
| Coale to see us-make your dollars
l oun Bring your card and have your
| purchases punched on it, at Whining.
/ toms Big Racket Store. North Front
| Street, opposite the Orion HOsel.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-30

liberty and American morality and
lave taken the initial step toward the
establishment OF a hierarchy foreign
to u institutions and our social laws
in the midst Of our republic
Shall we,' he continued. ALLOW Do
lygamy, and church and STATE to gam
a foothold in the house Of representa-
res when hat action would lead some
day to the bartering away OF the pres-
i~dencyT.
While the grandson OF Brigham
Young puts the brand OF condemna-
ton upon polygamy and Of rejection
upon Brigham Roberts, shall the
United States house prostitute itself
enough to admit the lecherous. moral
ieper as a member Of that body that
legislates against polygamy?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-30
THE EVILS OF DESTROYING FOR.
ESTS.

Some years ago the benefits Of trees to
a country were discussed and illustrat-
ed by examples drawn from the expert
ehces of nations. On the other hand.
the great evils attending the stripping
of a country of it's forests, and the at
ter poverty and evils that followed in
the decay of the products of the farm,
in the increase of sickness and deaths
among the people. in the great increase
Of droughts, in the sufferings of the
people for the want of their usual
necessafies and comforts We're al.
presented. In italy, Germany ANA
other countries tree planting has
been made a duty by compulsior..
The efforts to reclaim impoyer-
ished lands and~bring back the
needed rains have been successful in
districts of country. Lands that had
become sterile hav been greatly i'm
proved, and agricultural products have
been so stimulated as to orice more
make the farms remunerative and to
improve health conditions.
This old line of thought, much elab-
Grated in former years came back to
us from an extract in a recent paper
of President Eliot, OF Harvard, in The
Atlantic Monthly, on the curse of a
, treeless region. AS he has travelled in
foreign lands, and observed the bad
effects of stripping lands of the origin
al forests, we make a long extract, hop
ing it will do good in awakening at
tention among intelligent North Caro-.
linians. DR.. Eliot says:
ANY one who has travelled through
the comparatively t~reeless countrie
o the Mediterranean, such a:
Spain, Sicily, Greece, Northern Africa
n large portions of Italy, must fer
Vently pray that our own country ma,
be preserved from so dismal a fate. 1
is not the loss of the forests only tina
is to be dreaded, but the loss of agri
cultural regions now fertile and pop
ulous, which may be desolated by tn,
floods that rush down from bare hill!
and mountains, bringing with then
vast quantities of sand and gravel Il
be spread over the lowlands. Travelin,
a few years through Tunisie,
came suddenly upon a fine Roman
bridge of stone over a wide, bare, DIR,
river bed. 1t stood some thirty fee
above the bed of the river, and haS
kHN SSa VI d
population. Marveling at the height o
the bridge above the ground, I asket
the French statioI-masIer if the rive
ever rose to the arches which carried
the roadway Of the bridge. His answe
testified to the flooding capacity of tn,
river and to the strength Of the bridge
He said, I have been here four years
n three times 1 have seer the rive,
running over the parapets of tina
bridge That country was once one O
the richest granaries of the Roman
empire. 1t now yields a scanty supper
for a sparse and semi-barbaTous pop
ulation. The whole region round abour
is treeless. The care of the nationa
forests is a provision for uture gaI.
erations. for the pelmanence yer vas
areas Of our country Of the great in.
dustries of agriculture and mining
upon which the prosperity of the coun
try ultimately depends. A good fores
administration would o support it
self; but X should be organized in tht
interests of the whole country. n
matter what Ii cost"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-30

The Charlotte News did itself great
credit in dts issue Of last Friday. 1t
published a Western North Carolina
edition of ga pages, mammoth in size,
and gave it's readers descriptions of
Charlotte. and the other thriving towns
in its section, and all presented
cketches-of prominent business and
professional men, manufacturers, etc,
1t overflows with we'll wrought pictures
and descriptions. The Messenger hopes
that its remarkable enterprise and eff
forts will be amply rewarded, as they
deserve so richly. Its variety is great
and it must interest all people who
see it who take an interest in North
Carolina, its present and it's future.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-30
BRIGHAM YOUNG'S GRANDSON ON
POLYGAMY.

The Messenger within a week or so
called attention to the propagation of
Mormon polygamy in the states, and
the reviving of it's practice in Utah. 1t
ais called attention to the man Rob
erts, a polygamist, who has been elect
ed from Utah as a representative in
the federal house. The last report from
effect that he would be seated: that
the constitution did not forbid it, and
that there was no way to legally ex-
clude him. That is a pretty come off
a most inglorious and offensive
conclusion indeed. Is not the house ca
pable in saying who shall be a mem
Der? Must a man sit among them who
lives in open adultery with a half
dozen women he calls his wives or
if married to them shall he not be
treated as q nan is treated for
bigamy? If not why not? But our
purpose here is not to discuss
whether Roberts shall be GUST
ed or seated, but to call attention
to a recent opinion of a grandson of
the famous Brigham Young. Recently
in New York there was a meeting of
the Woman's Board of Home Mis-
sions OF the Presbyterian church. 1t
was a meeting called to begin the
fight against Brigham H. Roberts, the
polygamist representative-eiec from
Utah. Engene Young spoke and inn
pressively. Read this:
He declared that Mr.. Roberts rep
resented mighty forces. People who
iewed his election with unconcern
would learn that "a people SOC. 900
strong have turned from American
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-30
FURNITURE FOX
XMAS PRESENTS

FROM OUR COMPLETE STOCK
WILL BE EASY. AS THERE ARE
SO MANY NOVELTIES IN HAND
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MORRIS CHAIRS. THAT WILL
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LOVES TO BEAUTIFY HER HOMIE
WITH. THERE Is NO NEED SEEK
ING FURTHER. ALL THIS WE IN
WIFE YOUR INSPECTION. GUAR
ANTEEING THE LOWEST PRICE
IN LEGITIMATE BUSINESS.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-30

The Durham Herald says that the
julie Carr Durham Tobacco Company
has not Joined a trust. 1t has large
capital behind it. and the personnel of
the purchasers rank beyond any firm
or company in the tobacco business of
this country. They are men of large
affairs, having vast connections in
most all Of the large centres. and they
have not gone into the tobacco busi-
ness for their health"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-30

The busiest and mightiest little thing
that ever was made Is DIR. Kings New
Life Pills. Every pill Is a s~ugar-coat-
ed globule OF health, that changes
weakness. into strength. listlessness
into energy, brain-fag into mental
power. THEY'RE wonderful In building
up the health. Only Csc per box. Sold
by n. r. Bellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-30
HOME FOLKS

The North Carolina Presbyterian re-
ferring to the emissaries of polygamy
and the real menace to our institu-
tions," says pointedly:
"Some way should be found to send
a olygamist from Utah to the peniten-
tiarv for as long a term as the biga-
mist of North Carolina"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-30

If report is true as to P~ritchard, that
adventurer sees the handwriting on
the senate walls that he has "been
weighed in the balances and been
found wanting Hence he is willing
TO find safe harborage in a United
States iudgeship if he can get it.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-30

A writer in The Fayetteville North
Carolina Baptist in an interesting pa
per on the late President John H. Mills,
gives this concerning his last days on
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-30

To Cure a Cold In One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
let's. All druggists refund the money
II 1t fails to cure. Csc. The genuine
has L. B. O. on each tablet.