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The Lamar register., 1898-09-21
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Paris. Sept. 1T.-t;eueral Zurlinden.
the minister for war, has rendered his
resignation He sent his written resig-
uBtion TO Premier Brisson as follows,
Il have the honor to beg you TO re
eeiye my resignation as minister fol
war. An exhaustive study of the pa
pers in the nreyfus ease has convinced
me too fully Of his guilt for me to ac-
cept, MS the head OF the army, any
other solution than that OF the main
tenance OF the Judgment in Its entire
ty."
At meeting Of the Cabinet minis
tiers to-day IL was decided TO submit
the decisions in the Dreyfus case TO 4
commission 10 be selected by the min
lister OF justice. NJ Sarricu.
The Lamar register., 1898-09-21
Na,lenni IN s.-.l,, i.lnn.

Winuna. Mimi. Sept. 1s.-Professor
Charles De Garmo of Cornell Univer-
Sity, The retiring president of the Ma
tional Council uf Education. to-day an-
bounced the committee OF fifteen au-
thorizei at the meeting OF the council
in Washington. u. G., ON July 7th last.
TO investigate the whole subject OF
the establishment Of a national uniyer-
stty and report 10 the council nj its
HeSt meeting
The project for national university
has been 50 vigorously pushed OF late.
that the cuuncil thought the time had
come for nn authoritative Investiga-
ton and the representation 10 the
country Of a report that would be in
iiuentiai Ia shaping public and legisla-
tive opinion
The committee Is a very strong one
aud thoroughly representative. both OF
the various educational institutions of
the country and OF the several sec
tioDs-
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fSetf of every l3rilizrA ,,-ntt,,
eafin. J ail YTond 10 sts fhgt ~ III.
rotlesi, whieu ~ tines v.s ti.~,..,,
"nrii with greai iatertiaiionnI ,o,,,,lt
eAflon%, tie nicn ~ Angle Sa ron i,l,,c,F
anu lan=unze siond ;prpthei / nnfi,.,
that ! do not hear rs much ,I,e,,
totiSin I'd as / Used to to TbIs
MsF, which swept Il great navy fron,
me seas which ended an ancient nen-
PIC which developed the fact that
sainerieIin oiiiccrs ami American sol.
uiers rise always 10 the duties thn1
afN lnhlie~ed upon them. deyelored
,ne Vasi resources and the character
u tas people, and the wonderful trt
uinph OF Dewey. modest and coura,
NSopsr pFrscuied 70 the country tlit.
gF,stest example Il lipS vet s,s., ~
naval aliliity and a,luInist,,rt,.,. s,t.fi
tty. lie stood eur Their, M ,,s,,i..
with no soldiers, with nStliiue nm, M.
Meet afd be- maintained order AMI
protected from the Insurgents ~,
hyes or foreign citizens and In. Sif.,ft
OF Maniia. lie displayed wonderful
annuity ~ governing those Islands. rs
Wen ~ IN capturing them PsfDr,
ihs. news ~ his victory was huriiy
epid the Two most influential m.u h
thr ltwmocratiT party. Nv. BRYAN al
Dinn la and the Chairman or tho NJ
bohal executive cOlHnIutr.. Mr. Is,,t5,
az ArkansaS. n gentleman ~ gbH-act.r
and courage aLd standing. batif orsp5t
" and officially DECLARED thar the ri
icy OF Jhr Democratic l-irtv must ~.
azaiusS holding those Is!anil@ a,il
must BE- against further cxtansi1n ~
acquisition 81 Territory. ANA IA favor
81 giving tlcm hack 10 STain III Sur
iar" - such utiemnre,. lim state
msnfs u assistant Democrats nt 40,
orado spylnEs no not cut much fgase
New vistas are opening before Il.
our Tag i marching thousands of miles
neaneT the OsV4deug. and a. huupr
must hc utainiained wherever II spt1s
We have = part 10 PLAY among the a.
ti0ns ~ the garth. and We propose 10
DO . man'> duty II 4 for ~ ts b. lp
unhind The shavkiss ~ the eusiaVr,i
and the oppressed and lead the march
~ progress aud % riyiiira tion Tih.
Republican party gave this county
the homestead law. which Opened On
the West r. settlement; tho Republican
party freed the slaves. the Republican
party has ever stood foremost In eve-y
measure Tor the uplifting aud beneii,-
iu< % mankind and its work win not
he done ~ louE r. thrrr : further
work for Ibis nstinn To DO In the al
vhnrctucn' af civilization and of Chris
tiaui'y. ~ aEains, this policy the
Democracy has ~ far Developed on In.
trFuaiinnai qgfstluns only policy %
obstruction and of Interference They
wall until the Republican party advo-
Gates measUre. ard then fight q
uuifeSfiy and vigorously The bemor
racr stands about the garbage barrel
looking Tor something thar smells bad
aoI then less d around ia the hOpr
that :, may talnt the air. That Ia wha,
they are doing today on the cnudue;
of this war
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France Backs Down.

London. Sept. lS.-From Cairo. and
from an entirely independent source,
the Daily Mail learns that France has
assumed IA concillatory attitude to-
wards Great Britain and has declared
that the expedition OF Major Mar
chand Is quite unofficial.
The Sirtlar will offer to take Major
Marchand to Cairo, and it is probable
that the major Will accept and that
Fashoda will be occupied by Egyp-
tian troops.
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DESTRUCTION WAS ApsALllNo.
The West indian iinr9s.a,e D.d Awful
Damage to life ,. Prap-rty.

manage to fife = al Property.
Kingston. Jamaiea. Sept. IT.-Details
OF the hurricane. which are constantly
coming In. show the disaster to have
been Infinitely worse than was at first
expected. The destruction at Barba-
does was fully equal to that at St.
Vincent, while ST. Lucia also suffered
considerably.
The island OF Barbadoes, presenting
practically fiat surface. was com.
pletely swept by the vortex Of the cy-
clone, the result being that the entire
area OF cultivation was oblitsrated.
while majority of the residences and
Other buildings We're destroyed.
The population was seeking shelf n
at Bridgetown and other centers. only
70 hnd them little more than masses
OF ruin. The consequent distress IL
unparalleled in the history of the wes,
indies. and the governor has cabled
that instant and continuous outside re-
lief Is absolutely necessary in order TO
avert widespread famine and possibly
a resultant pestilence.
The actual extent Of fatalities has
rot yet been ascertained. owing 10 the
extent Of the ruin wrought through
out the island.
The Lamar register., 1898-09-21
nEFENsK oF TmE wAR

War Is horrible: u i Erim-vIsarel.
q means death and suffering cruel
suffering our war has heen conduct.
ed with less loss ~ life proportion
atpiV IN tho time it has been conducted.
b. sickness and by wounds. than any
war thai has rves been conducted. aud
far is-<s than uuF ciyii War There have
been serinus mistakes. undoubtedly
mndc W. had D handfGl af regular
troais we hRi % employ additional
cnmmlssart- and quarteruiasiers frouI
elya gtte. uuSkilird IN business and un-
Trained % shos, particular duties We
shipped our troops 70 4 .u-r',t zone. tIn.
known 90 -, to which ihey were not
accilmatsd. aud there were, unddnht.
ctiiy. cruel mistakes no suggestion ot
joblsery. ne suggestion % thlrvlus. no
suggestiIn Gf dishonesty but sug-eS.
iipns. undoubtedly trus. Of ineomp.-
teucy In many directions. They are
Inevitable IN any country that has only
a small standing army At he outset OF
o contest. Tbey are being investigated
The perpetrators of them. II they ars
guilty. Will he punished. but you can
no more hecloud the Republican party
with them than y1u can prevent the
sun disslpating the miSts Of the morn
Ing. In all this glorious future which
the Republican party 4 70 BE- called
upon 70 shape and define. we OF Colo
RADIO propose 20 take a mans share
When, on the 3th of last month. early
Iu the morning. the Colorado regiment.
together with California regiment
and the Eishtrcuth infantry. all OF
whom had been lying for days IN
trenches half filed with water and
uuder tropical rains, were ortiered TO
charge. the old fortress at Malnte. they
started TO cross the Rio Clngalon
brenst deep In it's waters. and charged
furIously up the hill amidst a rain
storm OF bullets: when Private PheniN,
who was the first OF the Colorado troops
10 reach the flagstaff, hauled down the
Spanish flag and was about TO raise the
American tias In It's place, he was
killed by d Spanish bullet. ahd Private
Holmes took the ilaE and gave Il TO
the breeze. they shed undying iustfe
upon the pruwess and courage OF Colo
RADIO troops. But. they did more. far
more. The flag that slipped from the
dying hands of pheuix and was un-
furled by Holmes was the nag OF our
whole country Emblazoned upon It's
azure field were forty-tiye stars. star
for every siate, and state Tor every
star. and their heruism viii forever
fypify the patriotism which anlihates
the breasts of Colorado people. not
alone for Colorado. but for their COM
mon country. This convention, by us
ticket and by Its platform, Will send me
message 10 our brothers Mt he East
that hate, misbegotten hate. has no
rlaee in our breasts; that our patriot
iSu is broader tllan the confines OF our
state boundaries; that reunited ana
hopeful and undaunted the Repupiic-
ans Of Colorado still keep step TO tue
music OF the Union.
The Lamar register., 1898-09-21
Mus, pl.arm the Mu..ulman...

Gambia, Island of Crete, Sept. H.
Admiral Noel, the British naval com
mander here. last evening handed Ed
hem Pasha. the Turkish governor, a
demand for the disarmament of the
Mussulman population. The pasha is
awaiting the Instructions of the Turk
ish government on the subject
The Lamar register., 1898-09-21

n, I en- housavgfyes in Almflo, Holland,
,,-fn vSere consulted as regards the deslr-
gsiiiity OF aboltsEing night work for oi'N-
er., but ten favored the measure.
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PUBLIC OPINION

There was a time, it is still remember
ed, when oratory was counted the spec
lal gifts of the men who commanded
senates, and who assumed ITO lead the
people. For many years the American
congress in bodh its presented
such a list of orators as was not equal
lied by any other parliamentary body on
earth. And where have they gone? The
speeches made by the fathers OF the re-
public have lived more than a hundred
years, but who expects THAT the speech
or any member of the present senate or
house of representatives will be read a
century from now?-Kansas City Star.
The position of Consul General Lee at
Havana, while highly enviable from the
point of confidence and trust repoSed by
the government in his Judgment and
GOODNESS, is not one to be desired in point
Of fact. White the champions of Cuba
in the United States, in congress ard in
the public prints, are doing all in their
power to precipitate trouble between this
country and Spain, and while many
SpaTaiards believe that nothing but the
aid and moral support of the people of
tie United States has enabled CubanS to
hold out 50 long against Spain, General
Lee is in Havana. in the midst of Span
iSh sentiment and Indignation. Already
there have been riOtOuS demonstrations,
and stories of internal machines being
found in the building where the Ameri-
can consul has his office, have been pub
l1sNled. A timid man would long since
have summoned American men of war
to the protection CT THE consulate, but
with marked oo,ns and courage, Gen
eral Lee has quietly perSued the even
tenor of his way. Despite all the sensa-
tlonal stories he has declined the proffer-
ed men of war. He has seen war before,
and cannot be panic-stricken by the
fighting of a street rabble.-Augusta Ga.
Chronicle.
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RELIGIOUS EDITORIALS FOR
SUNDAY.

Rev. DR.. John Hall, of New York,
for thirty years pastor of Fifth Ave
nue. Presbyterian church, is an Irish
man by birth. He is evidently a mar
of decision, of piety, of usefulness, of
ability, of learning and of convictions.
He stands faithfully, squarely, by the
doctrines of his church. 1t is said
that his recent resignation vas
caused by the opposition Of some of
his trustees-four in number-to his
fidelity to the old fundamentals and
dogmas of Presbyterian standards.
His great congregation thought bet
ter Of his preaching than the four,
and unanimously asked him to recon
slider his resignation and continue as
their pastor. This he has done. The
New York Sun, in an editorial on the
resignation of DIR. Hall says:
The distaste for DR.. Halls preaching
which has found expression in the Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian church is only an
other Indication of the decline in pSoi-
tive faith manifested in the denial by
DIR. Briggs of the infalibility of the Bib
and the substantial displacement of the
doctrine of he'll by Presbyterian pulpits.
The DIRECTORS to DR.. Hall want to sub
stftute for him a pastor who gives as lit
tie heed TO the Westminster Confession
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ness of others of a high rank. SCOTS
verse has suffered from dispraise, but
he is truly Homeric and full of fire
and interest. His poetry will always
pay to read. Try 1.-The lay of the Last
Minstrel" London Literature" last
year commended the poet and critic
Henley for "his well-timed stand
against misrepresentation of Words
worth and the common undsr-repre-
sentation of Byron" The writ
by exquisite finish and mere
graceful tenderness may say
what they may in dispraise of Byron,
but there is a considerable body of his
work that is of undying excellence.
There is no objection to fastidious
finish and rare beauty of form if the
thought be there. So much of current
poetry is made up of rare expression,
of the finest metrical structure, with
out a corresponding body of thought.
The ideas are lost sight of in the ex-
cellence of the workmanship. Too
many poems are colorless or moderate,
or thin, with Astounding we'll chosen
words and mellifluous flow and ryth-
mic charm.
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assured them they were dead" First
get converted, become a genuine
Christian believer in Jesus Christ, the
Lord and Saviour, and then living
heart to glorify God, serve Him faith
fully and get home to Heaven. There
is nothing truer in theology than the
statement of the late very learned
Rev. DR.. Thomas o. Summers. that
Regeneration is an instantaneous
work-it admits of no degrees, of no
progression. We cannot be partially
regenerate-we are, or are not. born
again" He says: 1T Is certain that
regeneration extends to our whole
moral nature" Another writer of
the same church says: las iustiica-
ton cancels the guilt of sin, so regen-
Grafton removes the corruption of
sim" We have no way of emphasiz-
ing, as We would like to do, the two
significant words, guilt" and cor
ruption." The same excellent think
er, Rev. j. NJ. Boland, says: The Di-
vine Life realized at the new birth is
not two, but one. This life, like all
life, is growth; and this growth. like
all growth, has its different stages"
Growth" and stages" are the en-
phatic words. Perfection is a higher
state than regeneration. You grow in
grace, you develop in your spiritual
life, you go on to the perfected life by
the deligent use Of means. If regen-
Grated, you are regenerated out and
out-a thorough work. You are not
"carnal' any longer, but spiritual.
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WILMINGTON, n. C.
TUESDAY, 1
MELANGE

We learn from a column and a half
communication in the Atlanta Journal
that Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson is
still living. Before the great wal and
ssfs1zs after her novels were much read,
ard by the large class of promiscuous
NOFe7 readers were greatly relished.
We have no personal acquaintance
with them, but remember that thirty
or forty years ago they were regard
cd by cultured men as somewhat stilt-
ed and pedantic. We are surprised to
Eearn hat they still sell well, after
three or four decades, and that she is
ia receipt annually of a good royalty
from her perhaps half dozen novels.
Sne received one check of $3.50 for
her ~Vashti." She declined an offer
Cf Sc, 900 from Lippincott, of Phila-
delphia, for the right to publish a cheap
edition of her books. This she declin-
sd, remaining loyal to her friend and
publisher Of old" She is sixty years
obi, active and bright and vigorous in
body. She married late in life. She
k "a slow writer, and has abandoned
authorship. She is southern BORN but
we do not know her birthplace.
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There was a novel find recently that
mas given much pleasure to gifted
critics and really cultivated men and
women in Great Britain. 1t is the dis
coyery of the poems of Bacchylides, a
Greek who wrote lyrical verse. AS
all readers Of Symonds know the
Greeks were represented by Pindar,
with the exceptions Of a poem here
and there by some other poet whose
main work was lost. B~acchylides was
Il nephew of the distinguished poet
SlmOnides, whose p d lotions have
nearly all, or quite, persisted. He was
remembered among the nine lyrical
poets of his country and must have
been a poet of real genius with the
high gift of song, for as some n has
said a lyric is a song, and to be truly
Lyrical is to give your verse the sing
ing quality. We quote only from
memory. To recover a lost classic
after 1000 or $500 years is indeed d
rich find, and is we'll calculated to
awaken d profound interest among
scholarly men of taste. The recovery
occurred at the close of last year and
the poems found ona papyrus was hid
den away in the great British library,
the museum in London. They have
been published and edited by F. G.
Kenyon, Nj. A, D. Lift. Bacchylides
was not regarded by by his
countrymen as among the great
poets, but as Longinus, we
ehink it was. said of him that he at
tanned "to a safe and secure level of
style" The recovery embraces
twenty poems containing in all over
1000 lines. His special line appears to
have beer epinikian, as there are four
teen of these victory productions out
of the twenty.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-01
Good Farming
Correspondence Of The Messenger.)
Warsaw, y. c., Jan. 90

Correspondence Of The Messenger.)
Warsaw, y. c., Jan. %
AS you, from time to time. report
good farming" I will report an in
stance in our community. Mr.. L. C.
Powell. on a one and a aif horse
farm, during the past year, made $50
bushels of corn, 400 bushels of potatoes,
1000 pounds of fodder, $500 worth Of
truck; cas-, chufas and cane in abund-
ance and 5000 pounds Of lint cotton,
4,6S3 pounds of meat, and only keeps
one hired boy to help him, besides a
day now and then of hands To chop
during h busy season His heaviest
pig (twenty-eight months old to q
day, and of the Kennedy stockl weighed
1872 pounds. Let others beat il IL they
can and report through your paper.
Fifteen years g Mr.. Powell was
not worth a dollar, but by hard work
and economy. he is today worth his
thousands. His pig breaks the county
record or heavy hogs, and Mr.. Pow
ellis record shows what pluck and pa
thence can accomplish.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-01

In the past while the critics were
zaadation as now of ordinary produc-
lions of any kind, there were writer's
both in prose and verse VINO greatly
e~1xerrated. The taste of many people
Fed them to laud Miss Lander, Mrs.
FIemans and others Tar beyond their
zeal merits. In some instances even
the verse of women of genius, like
Mrs. Browning, and writer's Of fiction
like Madam D'Arblay and others re-
CeiYed praise in excess of merit. This,
however, is liable to happen in any
age, as it takes time to separate the
library wheat from the chaf, and to
place the final stamp of approval upon
works, history, biography, criticism,
verse of any kind. Meretricious
adornment, novelty of strain, perfec-
Z F5nn of dress may mislead and capti-
Safe- There are poems that it was
once the vogue to extravagantly laud,
sike Keble's Christian Year" There
are poets now living who are greatly
rraissd for the perfection and beauty
OF literary form and execution who will
Eys probably so years hence not known
seyoad some surviving song or other
kind OF verse. Who knows in 1898.
ar thing of Sir Francis Boyle really,
M OF Charles Whitehead, or Onslaught
messy or the two brothers Of Lord
TeRnyson, Charles and Frederick, all
. poets. and some of them much esteem
ed in the past. There is a disposition
usaw 10 forget the overrated poets of
che past, and to depreciate the great
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fWhen a woman can't get a servant
to do her work there is no help for it.
There is no man SO bad that he has
a secrete respect for one that's good.
1t is useless to worry; but it is use
less to tell a man that lit is useless to
worry.
Fashion has decreed it and the hustle
will again bring up the rear of beauty's
train.
1t is said hat eating onions will pre-
vent a mustache from coming on a wo-
Ian lip.
A physician says that cigarette
smoking causes softening of the brain;
but he doesn't say how he found it out.
Men may come and men may go, but
a man mother-fn-law usually takes
off her things and makes herself at
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-01

The democratic party is the only re-
sponsfbIe party in North Carolina. 1t is
the only party that is not dominated by
greed of office, by personal hatreds, by
motives that will not bear the light.
There are increasing evidences that by
the time the leaves are failing the good
people of this state viii have determined
that they have enough of the wild vaga-
ries of populisn and the deliberate de-
bauchery of republicanism. The worst
prophecies OF the tbitterest enemies of
fusion failed to adequately forecast the
stigma and the shame it has brought
upon the state. 1t win not be an easy
battle. The opponents of democracy are
not hampered by scruples. There is no
dodge known to political schemers that
Will not be tried. But it appears that if
the friends of honor and tine advocates
of SeemtinesS will but be alert the day
OF reckoning will come in N~ovember.-
Greensboro Telegram.
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Stevenson posthumorus novel EST.
Ives" has reached a sale Of $4,000. 1t
was finished-several chapters added
we believe-by Willer-Couch and most
admirably it is said. Biackmore, in
England is regarded as the most pop
ular of the old living novelists. His
latest Darrell" is we'll received, but it
is placed below his great novel
Lorna Doone," and some one or two
of his charming stories. Literature"
says sit is certainly a capital and en-
tertaining story" There are two new
works out about Peter the Great. Dr..
George Brande,a great Shakespearean
critic and student among the Germans,
has published a work on Shakespeare
that is soon to appear in English
translation. 1t is said to be full of
originality and power "Benja-
min Swift" a young English
novelist pushing for fame, has a novel
out called THE Destroyer" We learn
that his real name is w. R. Paterson.
He is a writer of gifts and of brilliant
promise. Mr.. Egerton Castle, DR..
Gordon Staples, and Mr.. William LIE
Queux have each a novel ready.
These are English novelists of some
reputation not much known in our
land. But the name of foreign novel
lists is legion.
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and the more ascetic requirements of a
religious life as they themselves give"
He is a true man, the very kind of
Dogma is needed to be preached.
instead of a sentiment and theological
froth and insipid commonplace and
sensational stuff. Let a man stand
by his convictions and let the world
wag on.
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Things to Remembe Der

That the best. poultry has firm flesh,
yellow skin and legs.
That lemons will keep for weeks if
covered with cold water.
That 60 degrees is not too low for the
temperature of a dining room.
That pork should be fine, c~lose-grain-
ed and the rind smooth and thin.
That the best beef is moderately fat
and the flesh of a bright red color.
That soap and chalk mixed and rub
bed on mildewed spots will remove
them.
That a brush dipped in salt water
should be used in cleaning bambo fur
niture.