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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-02
The Right Remedy Will
Danish it Forever.

If you would forever be rid of
the aches and pains, and some
times the fortunes produced by
Rheumatism, you must take the
right remedy. Those who con-
tinue to suffer are relying upon
remedies which do not reach their
trouble. The doctors treatment
always consists of potash and
mercury, which only intensity the
disease, causing the joints TO stiff
en- and the bones to ache, besides
seriously impairing the digestive
organs.
Rheumatism is a disordered state OF
the blood, and the only cure for it is q
real blood remedy. Swift's Specific Is.
s. s. goes down to the very bottom Of
all diseases of the blood, and promptly
cures cases hat other remedies can not
reach.
Mr.. E. &. S. Clinkenbeard, a promi-
nent attorney of Mt. Sterling, Ky,
writes:
1.-TWO years ago l was a great sufferer
from rheumatism. l had tried every
remedy / could hear of except S. s. S.
I had been to Hot Springs, Ark, where
I remained for twelve weeks under
treatment, but / Experienced no perma-
nent relief, and returned home, be-
lieving that I would be q sufferer as
long as I lived. At q time when my
pains were almost unbearable, I
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-02

can truthfully say I have not had an
angry sentiment at n OF the anony-
letters / have received or at
those from the chivalrous gentry Of
the south. teeming with obscene cpl
thets heaped upon me for the recF-
less statements Of a young male re-
porter, who only exhibited the henious
race prejudice in writing the para
graph to which l refer. The
white women Of the south who are
my friends and who know me person
ally would no sooner credit me with
such d statement than would the mem
bers of my own church. home or OF my
family"
II was unfortunate that she was
present at such a meeting in which she
spoke. when the south was up for
comment by enemies and incapablrs
who neither knew the exact condi-
tions nor were disposed TO be fair and
truthful. Evil company is not good
for pure women. Our southern women.
GOD bless them. keep away from
scenes of contamination and wrong
doing.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-02
THE STATE UNIVERSITY
The Great Foot ball Game Aid to
Cuban Students-EaI atoms
University Gossip

Correspondence OF The Messenger
Chapel Hill, y. c., November 80.
The victory was a great one and gave
team at Richmond last Thursday is
still all the topic OF conversation.
The victory was a great one and gave
us the championship OF the south FOR
this year. Carolina has determined to
hold the championship again next year
and we will have a good team 10 do it.
The captain for next years foot bail
eleven is Mr.. :. T.. Shull. He played
tackle on this years team and was =
star player in all the games.
Basket ball and tennis are the only
games going on now. \ tents tourna-
ment will take place today.
This university has Joined with "A
number OF American universities in Of
fering aid to Cuban students, in the
movement in~augurated by General Joe
Wheeler. SO next year there viii
probably be some Cubans in attend
, anCe.
The firth s~emi-annual debate be-
tween the Dialectic and the Hhilan-
, thropic societies occurred last Satur-
day night in hi hall. The query was:
Resolved. That Imperialism Should
Form the Future Policy OF the United
States"
The dcbaters were: Affirmative
Messrs. l.. r. Johnson ana J. W.
Greening. Of the PHI; negative
, Messrs. a. j.. Volt and G. y. Coffcy.
Of the hi. The committee. consisting
of DR.. Alexander. Professors Noble ami
{ Cain. decided in favor Of the negative.
The examination schedule for this
fall was posted yesterday. The exam
nations begin on Monday. December
18th and run without intcrmissinn tim
Friday. December 23rd.
President Alderman has been invited
! and accepted the invitation TO deliver
! the Ommenccmen address at the Tu-
/ lane university. New Orleans. May ;.
1899. He will make an address in Dur
| ham before the Public Library Asso-
| citation and also in Greensboro before
the Public Library Association at that
| place on December Sth and 9th.
Mr.. Walter II. Page. editor Of Tho
| Atlantic Monthly. Boston. viii lecture
here on Thursday. March q. 1899. His
| subject will be: contemporary Lit
erature and the Men and Women who.
| Male IT."
DR.. PeytOn II. Hoge OF Wilmington.
the first OF the university preachers
for this season. is expected here to
| hold the first service next Sunday. u
win remain here a week and speak
! every day to the students.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-02
A LETTER FROM MRS. GRANNIS

The Messenger has received a cour-
teous and christianity tempered letter
from Mrs. E. B. Grannis, of New York,
concerning the report of VIA she said
in denunciation of the fair and pure
women of southland. She denies the
statement attributed to her and is en-
titled to be heard. She incloses the
following taken from the New York
Herald of the 23rd Instant:
elizabeth B. Grannis says she was
miSQuOted in the neWspape accounts
of her address at the cOlOred mass
meeting in Cooper Union. Her utter
anceS, she says, after having been per-
verted, have caused wide comment in
the south. Mrs. GranniS says she has
never seen a white in the south
with a tinge of negro blood in her
veins. Out of the 5000 persons present
in Cooper Union, she says, she doubts
whether any unprejudiced one could be
found who could cOnstrue a sentiment
she uttered as agreeing with the pub
lished account. Mrs. Grannis says: I
have never heard of white women be-
ing full Of negro blood"
AS The Messenger was one Of the
many southern newspapers that "scor-
ed her" for a most unwarranted and
most slanderous statement, it is quite
ready to accept her denial, and to give
to it the same publicity that its severe
condemnation of her received. 1t is no
pleasure to southern born men to
write rudely or bitterly Of any woman
of character. In the south woman is
regnant. The pure, true womanhood
everywhere among us are loved. honor
ed, we'll nigh wOrShipped, and the men
of the south stan ready always to de-
fend their good name promptly, vigor-
ously, at n hazard The men of the
south believe that The hand that hath
made them fair, hath made them good
and that among the ruder sex in 1.-The
poo rude world hath not her fellow"
The purity, the chastity. the gracious
the natural. unaffected grace. and the
voice even soft, gentle and low" as
the master hath it-these are the at
fractions that make woman lovable
and sacred with southern manhood.
The kind of woman that manhood dis
likes is
"A woman impudent and mannisn
grown"
We give Mrs. Grannis. who is presi-
dent of the National Christian League
for the Promotion of Social Purity, Of
the great city, the benefit of a repro
duction of the more significant part of
her letter of the date OF the 28th:
Il have experienced real distress
over the success of the smart report
er in getting into the World and Her
aid of New York, his squib rejecting
upon the white women of the south.
using me as a Scapegoat. Ny
record will prove i have served the
prosecuted, whether Hebrews. Irish.
Chinese, or IN other nationality OPP
pressed by the stronger and more pow
erful. Inasmuch, my dear sir, as l
believe myself to have received from
no lesser one than the Redeemer of
the world the commission to go out
with every other lowlychristian seek
ing for and trying to save the lost, I
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1t is high time hat the enormous and
damning crimes-murder, rape. arson
that SO often provoke the people TO
hang without due process of law should
be forever ended. To cure lynching
stop raping and numbering 1t is too
much to expect of people that they
will remain quiescent and submissive
when villains stalk around making
criminal assaults On helpless women
and children, and commit murder and
burn at will To end the work Of Judge
Lynch the crimes must cease
There must be some marked differ
ences between English trials ard
North Carolina trials. We merely, as
an outsider, judge by results. Over
there there are no lynchings, but there
are murders. The criminals are hang
ed. The British government has con-
tracted with society to protect it and
to punish crime unsparingly, n it is
done. We suppose that according to
population there are ten murders per-
petrated in the United States to one
in England. There is then really much
greater need here for a due enforce
ment Of law and stern dealing with
criminals than beyond seas. But law
is slack, men of good connections or
with money often escape punishment,
and the blacklist scoundrels get off
scOt-free through the one man power in
the jury box (Sambo) or the one-man
power in the governors chair.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-02
OPINION

Governors and United States sena-
tors haEe given opinions in brief OF
the critical race problem and how to
solve it. Senator Morgan. of Alabama,
thinks the negroes must finally return
to Africa-but not compulsory. He
says once the movement has begun
by voluntary migration, the govern
ment should aid il as a duty TO tina
race, and for the sake of humanity"
Writing of the negro soldiers, he says:
THE conditions have been much ag-
gravated by putting guns and swords
in their hands, as soldiers, and maxi
ing them the peers of the White men
in that high character, and most hon
Orable service"
Governor Gambler. of Georgia, says
the ballot must be more closely guard
ed, that the corrupt must not be al,
lowed to vote, that agitators must b.
suppressed by effective legislation, and
holds hat it is a mistake for the
whites to tax themselves to educate
negroes, and the result is bad. He
says:
For a generation the people of the
ldACd eoIIt-
Ously to educate the negroes, and in
most instances it is, as in the case OF
the North Carolina negro editor, an
educated negro who is primarily re-
sponsible for race riots
Bill Arp" of Georgia, wisely wrote
a quarter of a century ago that to ed
ucate the negro was simply Ito spoil
a good field hand" If the negroes are
educated let them do it by their own
toll and saving.
: Governor Johnson, Of Alabama, az.
vises the United States government
no to NEEDLE in the south, interfering
in our domestic affairs-that the south
is entirely capable of legislating for
itself.
Governor Rogers, of Washington
state, says that the superior race is
bound to rule.
Senator Caffery, of Louisiana, thinks
that migration is the true solution.
Senator Pasco, of Florida, says that
outsiders only aggravate race troubles.
Governor Bradley, republican,, Of
Kentucky, says that farther troubles
of the race kind are in store for this
country. He writes truly:
For more than a third of a century
of profound peace the people of the
United States have rover incapable
of settling the race question. 1t is 10
nearer solution now than at the out
set.
Notwithstanding this, an effort is
now being made to acquire other pos
| sessions, and another has been at
tached, the result of which will be
not only to bring under our jurisdic-
ton and control Malays, ignorant Ne
groes, Chinese, Japanese, Pigmies ard
lepers, thereby greatly increasing ra-
cial troubles and the difficulties at
tending their settlement, but the as
sumption of burdens and responsible
ties, which will prove OnerOuS, eXpen-
sive and exceedingly dangerous
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-02
CONFINES ACTIVE

We saw a list Of trusts-those curses
Of the American people-lately and we
think the enumeration Of names
would fill more than a long column of
The Messenger when issued in folio.
1t is a great. grinding, constituencies
outrage and monopoly. Congress does
nothing to suppress the crushing un-
holy syndicates and combines. State
courts are silent, and the laws against
trusts are a dead letter. Will the COM
ing legislature do any thing with the
trusts that wrong and Cypress North
Carolinians? Monopoly is very active
always, very eager for big money"
and is not particular as to the manner
how. There have been announcements
latterly Of several new trusts. and old
ones are reaching out and strangling
smaller rivals. The great giant to-
baccO trust is already gorged to reple-
ton but insatiate. A trust to control
the street railroad properties in both
New York and Philadelphia has been
OrganiZed-capital SIS, 000, 600. with
abundance more behind. The Houston
Post, noting the activity Of monopoly
germanely, says:
The syndicates in this country nev-
or sleep on opportunities. If there IS
anything in sight they rarely overlook
it, and they to have every
avenue to wealth in the new posses-
sions' practically monopolized before
and weaker companies or individual
investors can get in on the grosni
floor
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-02
EXTRACTS FROM A PHILADEL-
PHIA LETTER..

A member of The Philadelphia Rec
Ord's staff, a republican, wrote a let
ter to us a few days ago. We do not
know that it was intended for publ
cation, or that it was merely a pri-
vate letter. We will, however, under
the doubt make a quotation or two
from it. He writes of the negro preach
err to whom reference vas made edi-
torially yesterday. He says:
There is one thing / hope the good
people of Wilmington will do, and that
is administer a very emphatic express
sion of their disapproval upon the per-
son of Rev. J. Allen Kirk, a colOred
preacher who is going over the north
infaming the minds of the northern
people against the people of Whining
tor. Kirk claims to be one Of the men
forced, because of his convictions, to
flee from North Carolina. He has gone
owe this city posing as a martyr, and
delivering some of the most vicious
speeches to which l have ever had the
misfortune to listen, and if Rev. Kirk
returns to Wilmington, I hope the good
people of hat city will irritate his ep-
idermiS with a good strong cOWhide.
We SOuthernerS who have made the
north our home, n "a been hon
Ored with positions of trust among
these people, are forced to feel the pre-
JUDGE resulting from such untruthful
representations as those made by this
cOlOred divine"
Farther on our intelligent CORE
spondent shows that he understands
the causes of race troubles in the south
and how the northern politicians have
blundered in clothing the negroes with
the great duties and responsibilities OF
suffrage and quotes with approval from
an editorial in The Record a, part OF
which reads concerning the negroes
in the south, hat they have neve1
fathomed the nature of the duties OF
they ave given support, right OF
wrong, to the party to which they be
lieve they owe their emancipation"
Our correspondent also refers to hat
! discredited platform viragO and mud
| singer named Grannis, and says the
| south need not worry themselves over
what he says about them" Southern
whites do not regard her VapOrings ir
the slightest. He "a trat the PEG.
pie of the north admire and respect
| southern womanhOod, and no disparag-
ing comments of a prejudiced metro
| pOlitan Mrs. Lease, will influence then
to believe to the contrary"
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THE PROPHECY OF THE PfiILA.
DELPHIA PRESS.

The Philadelphia Press is the most
influential and widely circulated re-
publican newspaper in Pennsylvania.
1t is very extreme as an exponent Of
a high tariff robber tax and a gold
standard. 1t is like a young puppy,
with this exceptions: The puppy is
blind at h beginning of life while
The Press continues blind through life.
1t sees such awful things in North
Carolina that it dOns the prophetic
cap n foretells the loss to befall our
state in the failure of capital to come
in, and that immigration will cease,
and that the state will have to pay
the penalty for its lawlesSness and it
will come in a lessening of prosperity
and in grinding poverty. 1t has sown
the wind and it must reap the whirl-
wind. 1t will be a state to be voide
and stunned" All, Mr.. Press, YOU are
an enemy on the SLY or open, and your
wish is father to your thought. 1t is
a false prophecy for the protection Of
life and property is as good in North
Carolina as in any state, after elimi-
mating the storm centre" caused by
the course of the special friends and
wards of The Press-the negroes. The
Press is SO BLIND to facts and so free
from candor and truth that it says
that the security to life and property
which existed in North Carolina no
longer prevails" If his is true then
what caused it? There is but one pos
sible answer-violent, threatening ne
groes. We know how unfair, one-sided,
even malignant is this republican or
gan in the great city of "Brotherly
Love" and care really nothing for its
views-or it's VACCINATIONS. 1t is ignor-
ant, knows nothing of what it writes,
as it wilfully deceives and misrepre-
SCENTS. Why did it not tell the truth
that the bad conduct of its white and
black allies in North Carolina had so
completely shocked all men of sense
by particularly bad legislation and
wicked administration that they had
months g alarmed sensitive capital,
caused important business operations
to cease or to be suspended and con-
templated business plans to be de-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-02

Savannah, Ga, November 29-The
United States transport Chester. with
the Fifteenth infantry on board. and
which was run ashore yesterday IN the
channel four miles below the c1y, was
pulled of by tugs today.
Gersral Lee, commanding the Sew
enth corps. has been directei TO in
struct The officers 81 ali transports
leaving this city to unIoar; chcm and
return To Savannah quickly. he evil
dent intention being - move the
troops To Cuba as rapidly IS the work
can be don1.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-02
PSRKER.ROET
TfAe Wedding ut Fremont Yesterday
the Society Event Of the season

Correspondence OF The Messenger
G~oldsborO y. c., November 80
A special train left his city this
morning at 1916 o'clock for Fremont.
bearing the invited guests who were TO
witness the event in society circles for
the week, and one liz which widespread
interest throughout this city ard sec
ton was conferred. II eliminated this
morning m the beautiful little Metho-
dist church Of that prosperous town
the marriage o. Mr.. Fred Parker, OF
this city. and Miss Matilda Isler. the
charming and Popular daughter OF oar
good friend and c~ountymzn Mr.. Wiley
h Fort, Of tne Pikeville section.
The church was beautifully decorat-
ed for the occasion and was throused
with the numerous friends Of the con
tracing parties. many going up from
this city on the specially chartered
train TO witness the
h following young gentlemen act
ed as ushers. and at the appointed
hour of the ceremony preceded the
bridal party to the altar: Messrs. Kd-
die Fort, +. NJ. Miller, Jno. G. Sizer and
a.. II. Edgerton.
The groom's brother. Mr.. II. B. Par
ker, Jr., acted as best man. and the
brides younger sister, Miss Pearl Fort.
was maid Of honor.
Immediately after the ceremony the
happy young couple took the north
bound train for an extended bridal
tour. amid the congratulations OF their
hosts OF friends.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-02

Washington, November 29-Presiden
Mckinley had as guest Of honor at
dinner tonight President Iglesias. Of
Costa Rica- Inrited TO meet Presiden,
lglesias were h vice president, Mr.
Hobart the representatives at this
capital OF the South and Central Amer
lean governments, the members OF the
cabinet and other gentlemen prominent
in the official and social life OF Wash.
ington,
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Goodbye,
Rheumatism.

CHANGED to read your advertisement
and was impressed with il so much
that l decided to try s. 8. S. l took
eleven bottles and was entirely relieved
of all pain and cured permanently.
When / began to take 5. s. $. / was
unable TO sit or stand with any ease,
and could not sleep. Since taking the
last dose / have had nc return Of the
rheumatism, and / take great pleas
ure in recommending 5. 5. ) 10 any
one who has the misfortune to suffer
with this disabling disease"
SIS. Is the only cure for Rheu-
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HOME FOLKS

The Raleigh News and Observer pub
fishes a list of crimes for which an
officer a be ~impeached in North Car
Dina. There are six:
Il. Corruption or other misconduct in
his official capacity.
2. Habitual drunkenness.
3. I~ntoxication while engaged in the
exercise of his office.
4. Drunkenness in any public place.
5. Mental or physical incompetence.
6. Any criminal matter conviction
whereof would tend to bring his Of
flee into public contempt"
1t is urged by many that Governor
Russell should be OverhauIed, and
som say thai Lieutenant Governor
Reynolds is also open to such a fiery
ordeal. Who is the Hercules who will
clean the Augean stables? The News
and Observer ed~itorailly says:
1T has been generally understood
that Impeachment could not be resort
ed to except for what are declared T.
be high crimes and misdemeanors'-
reason gross corruption. or infamous
conduct. AS a matter of fact the Nav
recognizes misconduct in his official
capacity as sufficient cause for i'm
parchment"
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When you ask for Dewitt's Witch
Hazel Salve don't accept a counter.
teit or mutation. There are more cases
OF Piles being cured by this. than ALI
others combined. r. r.. BelIamy.
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matism, which is
the most stubborn
of blood diseases.
1t is not intended
to give relief only,
but by completely
n~eutraliZing the
.acid condition of
blood it forces
out every trace OF
the disease and
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-02

The Washington Post talks with Mr..
r. Il. King, Of Greensboro, who is in
this city. Like a man OF truth he tells
Just how it is now in North Carolina.
He tells the lively Post that this state
is quiet and will so continue. He asks:
DO you know what is at the bot
tom of the trouble? 1t is simply the
fact that the legislature passed a bill
giving the governor of the state he
authority to appoint a certain portion
of the officers in some of the towns.
The republican state administration
thus got the negroes intO power. Lo-
cal elections would never have done it,
All the towns in which the trouble oc-
Cured were those upOn which the leg
iSlature had fOisted such a peculiar
charter. The charters Of Wilmington
and the other tOWns will be changed
at the next session of the legislature,
so as to leave the appointment of To-
cal officers entirely in the hands of To-
cal authorities. There is no question
about that: the white man is going 10
be governed by the negro. The north
erner would not submit to it any more
than the C~arOlinian."
We asked a northern gentleman of
sense and candor about this-hoW long
would a northern city or community
stand just what Wilmington was pass
ing through-it was before the cleo
tion-and his reply was: They would
not stand it for an hour
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and one thousand dollars reward
is offered to any chemist who can
prove that it contains a particle Of
mercury, potash, or any other
mineral ingredient. 5. ;. 5. Is
the only blood remedy guaranteed
to be absolutely free from mineral
mixtures.
Books sent free by Swift Spe-
cifc Company, Atlanta, Ga.