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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-01
THE CADIz FLEET NOT FEARED.

Washington. May 31.ZThe frequent reports
from Spain through other countries to the effect
that a formidable fleet is being prepared at
Cadz to sail for the West Indies. causes little
apprehension here. Naval officers. through pri-
vate means OF communication. have pretty well
satisfied themselves that the Cadiz feet Is a
paper fleet. In other words. It's offensive power
Is altogether illusory More than half the ves-
sells whose names appear 80 frequently in the
press dispatches as formidable war craft are OF
ANTICIPATED type and in sad state Of disorder.
The old Numancia is an example. She Is rated
a. a battle-ship Of the first class In her day
sho was q battle-ship. but she has not turret
nor a sponsor. and would make little moro than
sport for a modern ironclad. In addition to be-
ing Anticipated, most Of these vessels are broken
down in engines and boilers. In their disregard
Of the simplest precautions for preserving the
complex machinery OF a warship the Spaniards
are excelled by no people, and 1t is we'll known
that they have been obliged 10 hire British en-
Sineers their engines whenever they did
run. There are some vessels. although few, at
Cadiz Of modern type. but they are not numer-
GUS nor powerful enough to give the American
Navy any serious concern.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-01

FASSLU oNEI1r'f . 'ssN "
The steamer Jason arrived here yesterday
jamaica Captain Fraser reported seeing IN MOI
,ao, Paw the Associated Press dspa boat Dano'
which had put in there for coal and water 49,. 49,.
spanish steamer Purlssima Conception ans
British brig Harry Stewart. which report" -
she was stopped when about to enter tho - 10,
Manzanlo. Cuba, by the United States o1ooA~. a
squadron When the Jason vas on SAN am Sfi,cer
OH, on Nav % she bolrdei oN AHMED
from The auxiliary cruiser 81 Paul, who ,ar i'm
her papers and allowed her TO proceeoi steamer
Warming Captain Fraser that Britisn- Ss had
laden With coal bound for Santiago dc This
inst been captured and sent TO key ,rs has ".
steamer was the Restormei, whose cap''''
ready been announced.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-01
FRENCH CABLE TO BE CENSORED OR CUT

FRENCH CABLE TO BE CENSORED OR CUT
Washington. May 81 specaD.-Eugene THE
baut. secretary Of the French Legation. had a
two hours conference with Secretary Day this
afternoon regarding the censorship Of the
French cable at Martinique. The United States
requires that the strictest watch be kept on
messages that enter or leave Martinique from
the Dominion OF Canada. where the French
cable touches before 1t proceeds to Spain. The
French Government claims that the United
States should have no control whatever over
its cable business. while the United States au
thorities are Just insistent to the contrary.
especially as Spanish spies sympathizers in
Canada might do the United States incalculable
injury by unrestricted use Of this cable. Sec
rotary Day told Mr.. Thiebaut plainly that II
the United States did not freely receive the alb
eolute right Of censorship the cable would be
cut
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-01
THE PRESIDENT ANXIOUS FOR ACTION

IVEOIDL.NI A4N-NIOCO TOIS HC IO4N
Washington. May 31-Representative New
lands, Of Nevada, who introduced the Hawaiian
annexation resolution in the House. spent some
time In discussing the matter to-day with Pres-
dent Mckinley. but did not express entire conf
dence Of securing a rule for consideration Of the
resolution The President took occasion in inter-
views with callers to Teiterate his conviction
that the annexation Of Hawaii should be speed
fly accomplished.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-01
SPAIN AND THE EXPORT OF SILVER.

Madrid May 31-The Chamber OF Deputies
has voted the law prohibiting the expectation
OF silver coin. II is feared the measure will
fail Of the effect desired.
The rush on the Bank Of Spain to change the
notes continues. The authorities, however. have
decided to treat as criminal disturbers Of the
speculation or to create difficulties for the bank
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-01
RUSSIAN OFFICERS TO SEE THE WAR.

Washington, May ai.-Two Russian officers. &C.
companied By member OF the Legation here, were
at the War and Navy Departments to-day to OBJ
tain permission to observe the operations of the
war. They are Colonel Yernoloff end Lieutena at
Zelenoy. The permission will he granted
Semi=weekly graphic., 1898-04-27
RAPED AND
 MURDERED.
A HORRIBLE CRIME COMMITTED AT C0RKSCREW MONDAY
 AFTERNOON.
Letha Roberson, Colored Woman, the Victim of Negro Brute's
 Outrages.

News was brought to this city late last (Moadayl, night of horri- ble crime committed yesterday afternoon at Corkscrew, a place about five miles south of here on the Cotton Belt road.
 Letha Roberson,a a colored woman, was raped and murdered by negro brute. The crime was committed between 2 and 3 o'clock in the after noon in an open field. Letha Roberson lived with her husband and child on the Warren road. She went with her child, boy about years old, out to the garden to get vegetables. The negro was hiding behind a bush He was at her be- fore she was aware He had a heavy piece of wire fastened to two sticks. With this he gagged his victim, pin ing her head to the ground with the wire in her mouth and the sticks driven in the ground. After ac- complishirg his inbuman deed the negro clubbed his victim until she was nearly dead The boy was also brutallv beaten. The negro woman managed, after her ravisher had gone, to loose herself aud make her way to 9 neighbours house where she told some other negro women of the assault made upon her. Con- sternation filled lhe women and they were afraid to venture out for physician or for help The neigh borhood was searched by negro men. later in the afternoon for the rapist,- but he had made his escape. He was described by the woman as be- ing about it. II in. tall and very black.
 This morning the negro woman died from ,he effect of her injuries.
 The officers here haze been noti- fled and are on the lookout for the black brute.
Semi=weekly graphic., 1898-04-27
Seripps-McRae Telegram.
The Declaration of War.

WASHINGTON, D. C., April 26The bill against Spain the House and yesterday signed the President follows:
 bill declaring that exists America the kingdom of Spain,
 enacted That hereby existed since the day April 98 including day. between the United States kingdom of Spain.
 That the President hereby empowered entire land and the United effect"
Semi=weekly graphic., 1898-04-27
NEWS FROM THE CAPITOL, The Attorney General Considering the Le-
 gality of Seizures. The War Revenue Bill to be Taken Up
 Tomorrow.
Scripps-McRae Telegram


 WASHINGTON, April 26,-The Attorney General and State Department wrestling with the question of the legality of the seizure ovese by fleet decision expected this noon
 The President has the of John B. Moore of New York the Senate for confirmation Assistant Secretary of State
 The bill will be taken up the House Wednesday and Thursday will devoted debate and voting amendments will begin Friday a
Semi=weekly graphic., 1898-04-27
LANDED ON CUBAN SOIL,
American Sailors Landed on the Coast and
 Got the Information Desired.
scripps-McRae League Telegram.

KEY WEST, April 26-Amercan sailors landed Il Cuba Sunday night Lieut. John Fremont son of the Pathfinder and of the torpedo boat Porter acting Capt Sampson landed small force the information desired No Spaniards the force pre- pared for them.
Semi=weekly graphic., 1898-04-27
scripps-McRae Telegram,
KEY WEST, April 26-(12 m)-The Mangrove bringing in another large transport
scripps-McRae League Telegram.

NEW YORK, April 26 (3:38 p. m.)A dispatch rece here reports the prizes be the Panama and two shoone
Semi=weekly graphic., 1898-04-27
About Polo.

LONDON, April 25.The Government will be questioned m the today whether Senor Poo late spanish Minister to the United States will be allowed to Toronto as base for supplying news to Spain.
Semi=weekly graphic., 1898-04-27
Indorse Uncle Sam.

LONDON, ApriThe Irish members of the House of Com yesterday John Dillon presiding and passed resolutions rendering sympathy and good wishes the United States in their humane efforts to liberate Cuba.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-08
EQUAL SUFFRAGE IN IOWA.

For the next two years Iowa In to be
the woman sun ragfstSS clnJsen battle Heii.
The male and female advocates OF equal
rights to the BALLOT are row descending
on the state IN numbers. and If report
is true they have asr<sdy mapped o0t the
cans paign from start to finish. Tsey, og
course, want TO have a popular vote on
the question But as this L. not possible
ur,ess the legislature consents. the car
vass must first be directed. like that III
California az7d other states in 1856, to the
choice or memh~rs Of the two houses
who shah permit a referendum. The
leaders oe. the movement declare t1zst IL
they succaed they viii soon storm con-
greSs Immediately afterward. But this
has been tfTe. unfulflled condition to the
national campaign in the case Of a mem
Der Of states during the past th-ee or
four years.-Providence Journal.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-08
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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-08

II our readers would have some
knowledge of how great weeklies are
made, especially literary and religious,
a statement made on LIST January by
London Literature" will help in that
direction. The greatly International
Gazette" had been issued then for the
eleventh time. 1t published a COM
plete index on that day. The volume
(large pages) made $50 pages. 1t
stated that Of these -four pages are de-
voted to the index and 30 pages to
classified lists of over 1,500 books.
Apart from the notes, which We have
not attempted to index, eel $50 books
have been reviewed or otherwise
noticed by more than 100 contribu-
tors" Think of it, that to make
eleven numbers more than 100 men
and women of gifts and cultivation,
and, some profoundly learned, had been
employed. The way to make a great
newspaper or a great weekly journal
is to put many thoroughly competent
men to work upon it. The New York
Independent has six or eight regular
editors besides paid correspondents
The same is the case with the New
York Outlook, and the New York
Churchman, a weekly religious maya
zine, has about as many. The New
York Christian Advocate contains
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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-08

He hardly had an equal among the
kiIzabethan poets as a writer of SON.
nets except the master of all-his
friend Shakespeare. "Fidessia" and
"Chloris" are inspired products of
genius and will live through the cen
turtles in all good anthologies. The
sonnets Of Drayton are rich in imagi-
nation, while there is that extrava-
gance Of conceit, of dlction, of
thought that distinguished so many of
the writer's of that affiuent and royal
times. They are full of ardor and pas
sion, and are as direct as vigorous. A
critic in 1.-THE Literary World" lately
wrote this of this fine poet of the Eliz-
abethan cycle:
Since the day when its melody gave
ease to Petrach's wound tine sonnet
has eve been a favored refuge for the
lover, and let us hope trat in the PEN
ming of their graceful lines these low
ers of three hundred years ago found
soiace for the pain TO which we owe
such present beauty as that undying
sonnet of Drayton's,
Since there's no help, como, let us
kiss and part,
which Rossetti, himself a master in
the art, has declared almost, if not
quite, the best in the English lam
guage."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-08

London Literature says that Sc
lections' from Mr.. Meredith and the
collected Poems" of Mr.. Austin Dob
son contain between them more poetry
than all the original books of the
year" 1897. Mentioning Meredith sug-
gests an opinion of Robert Louis
Stevenson expressed in a letter written
well known English novelist. He tells
his gifted friend that setting aside
George Meredith, our elder and better,
l have read none of my contemporaries
with the same delight; and whatever
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-08
A WORD FOB YOU.

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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-08
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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-08

Mr.. Samuel Butler, an Englishman
of letters, has just published a volume
Of 275 pages to prove that a woman
wrote the Odyssey. 1t was, SO he con-
tends learnedly, the production of
Nausieaa, the daughter of Alcinous.
We learn from Literature" hat the
emminent Bentley long ago, was so
struck by the feminine characteristics
or his epic as to hazard the suggestion
at It was written for women" and
Literature" adds, that the great
scholar was on the track of the truth"
1t has been c%ontended for scores of
years that the Had, and the Odyssey
were not by the same hand. We do
not got into it here for we have not the
space, but the arguments are many in
favor of another authorship than
Homer. Literature" squarely says,
am II is certainly interesting:
eff criticism a MOI for centuries
been paralyzed by the assumption that
the Had and the Odyssey were from
the same hand it would long ago have
followed up n clue. Now that the
most authoritative scholarship recOg-
nizes with Professor Jelbb that the
Odyssey is a work of considerably Ia
ter date than the Had, the way Ties
. open before every candid inquirer.
The later epic simply abounds in midi
cations of femininity. 1t reveals a
WOman'S ignorance, a WOman'S Unpul-
SEES and ~pre1udices, a woman's sympa-
thies and antipathies, a woman'S
code of morals and theories of con-
duct. Mo man would nave given a
ship a rudder at both ends %(though it
is to be observed that Messrs. Butcher
and Lang have in their translation
Cbelized the line which represents the
ship of Ulysses as having a rudder at
the proW). No man would have made
the wind ''whistIe' over woves; or
have described a shepherd ais first
, milking ewes and then giving them
their lambs ITO suckle-thOugh whether
a man would not be more likely to
make this mistake than a Princess
who acted as laundrymaid, and might
just as probably have in her time
played dairymaid."
One of the leading arguments
against the Homeric authorship of
both great epic poems is the internal
evidence furnished in the styles of the
two books. Learned critics in the
Greek text affirm that the same hand
that wrote the Had could not have
possibly written the Odyssey, as the
style of the two great poems is so
markedly unlike. Some critics have
contended that no such poet as Homer
wrote either of the immortal poems.
Mr.. Gladstone has written two or three
books on Homer and he contends for
the authorship Of Homer for both
epics. We do not pretend to know
how it is but lean toward the sceptics
here.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-08
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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-08
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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-08
OLA PODRIDA

There are more editions of Shakes
peare than ever before, and better
ones for the same price. A really good
copy can be bought in one volume for
81 The large editions are very num-
erous- The best working edition we
have seen > is Grant Whites in three
volumes. His large edition is of rare
excellence. We find the three volume
edition handy, large type, and very
useful, the notes satisfying for general
purposes, but if you are in pursuit of
extensive learning and many notes it
will not fill the bill. A great deal
more is known of Shakespeare now
than in DIR. Sam Johnson's time al
though he was nearer by an hundred
years to the great poet. The very
Latin grammar that Shakespeare
studied in the Stratford school is
known, and the same school which he
attended is stiIl taught. The many
Latin quotations in the plays can
I'LL bC JUL III III l. LIZ
studied. Ben Jonson, who loved and
e%uiOgiZed him, said he "had small
Latin and less Greek" Jonson knew
Latin but Shakespeare doubtless could
L al Latin, if not SO well as Jonson,
whO was a scholar of no little preten-
sion. Jonson's eulogy on the far great
nv paninC &c rpaIa i'm mr. rfo n hoooI1cn nf
the subject. Shakespeare died at fifty
two, and strange to say the other
greatest genius Of the last twenty GEN.
turtles, Napoleon, died at the same age.
The family Of Shakespeare did not
average long in life. There were eight
in the family, and the average was but
twenty-one. His sister Joan lived to
old age. His stock is said to have
been unsound. There are no good
grounds, it is affirmed, for accepting
the story by Rev. John Ward, of STRAIT
ford, who wrote in 1868 shakespeare
died in 1870 that Shakespeare, Dray-
ton and Ben Jonson had a merrie
K1ettllS, duuy IL OccIlS uIduh lOO udlu,
for Shakespeare died of a fevour
there contracted" This is not III
ahenticated nor is it sustained by med
ical science. A writer unknown to us
puts it in this wise in refutation. He
is writing in the New York Musical
Courier: Strange to say, this obvi-
1rclxr zr;@ofrl niaoa re rocc;n hos haop
accepted by all the biographers down
to the presentitime. Medical science,
rejects it. There is no fever properly
so-called which can be contracted by
drinking, and Shakespeare's death,
moreover, occurred two and a half
months after the "merrie meeting"
The Drayton referred to above as
having that drinking bout with
shakespeare is Michael Drayton, a
man of genius, and with marked gifts
as a writer. He was born in War
wickshhire, near to Shakespeare
-Stratford, in 1868. He wrote a great
deal in verse, his work called "Polyal-
.bion'' being immense-in thirty pc
s1erous volumes. In it is some fine
poetry. He wrote other volumes o.
verse, ''The Baron's Wars" "Nymphi
rdia," etc. He is buried in Westmin
>ster Abbey among other poets. H
wrote some sonnets that have not onl!
survived, but are of exquisite charm
now to readers who love that form o
zerse in it's happiest manifestations
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-08

you may think of my own productions.
that you will set a value on the admi-
ration of any fellow-craftsman. Mr..
Murray has a new novel ready entitled
"Despair's Last Journey" He will also
soon publish a volume of poems and
tales.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-08
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