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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-09
RREvITIES.

Bismarck left a great fortune
s., 900, 900. He brewed.
General 10. Wheeler is writing a
book on the war. If he writes as well
as he fights it will be worth reading.
for it will be full Of spice.
Our authorities We're warned time
and again as to the serious dangers
from disease attending campaigning
in Cuba in the m Men who
knew implored them to defer until Oc-
tober an advance. But no, the army
must go. Now it is being decimated
and the troops are to be brought back
as fast as possible. A nation at war
needs a head.
1t looks as if there would be sharp
fighting in Porto Rico.
General Fitzhugh Lee is billed for an
inning when Havana is to be moved
against. But if peace soon, he
will gain no war Iaurels and have to
be content with what he won in the
confederate army.
The war department has been blum
dering for four months. Will it never
stop laundering?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-09
A GOOD AND NOBLE WOMAN

One of the greatest benefactOrS that
Baroness Burdett-COutts, of England.
She inherited some &c., 900, 900 a long
time ago, and she has used her great
wealth with much wisdom and liberal
ity. She has done wonders for the
amelioration and comfort of the poor
of her country. An interesting sketch
of her ~benevolence in London Tit-Bits
says that lone of her first good works
was to sweep away a nest Of thieves
and murderers in Bethnal Green, and
build in it's place three hundred model
homes" For forty years she has been
an active dispenser of blessing. In
cholera times she has proved herself
a blessing. She is liberal to all, but a
member of the established state
church. She helps all poor. In Ireland
all Britain she has built many refom-
atories for women. She built a church
costing $500, 900, and a bishopric cost
ing her $3.50, 900. She is IS, five years
older than the queen. Tit-Bits says:
"She has lived in four reigns, and
was one of the most notable figures
at the coronation of the queen. The
Duke of Wellington was her intimate
friend and adviser; Dickens-as al
ready ~stated-was her esteemed COM
panion. * II 1t is not surprising that
hOnOrs have fallen thickly IN this no.
BILE oma She holds the freedom Of
London, being the first woman on
whom such an honor has been confer
red, and is also a 'free-wOman' of Ed
inburgh. She is also the only woman
who wears the sultan's Order of the
Medjidieh.
Sixteen years ago the queen ele-
waited Miss Coutts to the peerage, a
royal honor which, if ever royal honor
did, gave universal satisfaction"
She is the daughter Of Sir Francis
Burdett, a famous liberal or Glad
stoneites of his day. Her grandmother
was duchess of st. Adams, and from
her she derived her great fortune she
has so mercifully and humanely used.
She was the first woman because Of
her own noble life and goodness and
sweetness who was eve hOnOred with
a peerage. Tit-Bits says she won it
"by her own life-work," and adds, that
she has used the greatest fortune
for the good of the greatest number,
and none will dispute the judgment of
the Prince Of Wales when he spoke of
this noble woman as the second lady
in the land"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-09
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
WILMINGTON, N. C.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1898.
RELIGIOUS EDITORIALS FOR
SUNDAY

1t is observable that the usual sum-
mer discussions in the north are on as
to clerical outings and closing OF
churches. While some censure the
vacation" business and declare that
pastors are r~ecreant to duty"-that
<'people are taking a rest from relig-
ion because the parson is gone"-that
"there will be no gospel here till the
cool weather" and even severer things,
there are religions and secular news
papers that advocate the long holidays
of the preacher. The main plea is
that schools, colleges, ETC., are shut up
so it is well to close churches and take
a rest Another defence is that
preaching so much is not necessary as
many members do not make church
Christianity" The New York Tribune
is strong for a vacation for all preach
ers. 1t says every man is the better
for taking a rest, and the pastor, like
the tanker or business a returns
to his duties with renewed vim and
enthusiasm when he comes home from
his vacation. His rest benefits not
only himself, but his people" Just
how much force there is in that we
will not undertake to say. The habit
or custom is fixed, and now pulpit
athletes must have an annual outing.
Do the editors of the Tribune and
other newspapers favoring the new
thing act upon it? Do they shut down
presses and all hands go off on a long
leave of absence? This writer begins
on first January and closes on last day
of December to begin next day, and he
has not had an "outing'' of two days
length in over ten years, and physical
ly he is not particularly vigorous and
any the worse off because of steady
work, although he has lost much
pleasure. We do not think the
/ reachers are in any danger of injur-
il g their health from over-work. John
Wesley preached eight or ten times a
Week, and lived to be nearly eighty
seven. There is more danger of a col
lapse from Incidence than from over
work.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-09

1t seems hat negroes are so much
addicted to thieving that they cannot
withhold their hands even when go
ing on excursions. Yesterdays Mes
senger told of how the Sambos on one
train robbed white excursionists bound
to this city. Thieving is not exactly a
fine art with Sambo, but he keeps in
good practice and lives upon the world.
He thinks under the present govern
ment in North Carolina that the au-
thorities are his friends and there is
NJ danger in pilfering. He will wake
up some fine morning to find that DOW
er is greater than thieving. But in the
meantime. honest people are suffering.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-09

streets of a city as one who had passed
at one time beyond earth's confines
that he had been even into hell, and
seen ~unspeakable things" of SO much
of which he wrote in his Divine
Comedy" as he told of the internal
regions, the middle place according to
his religion, the reign of purgatorial
fires, and Of the paradise of God
where he me again the lovely woman
of his dreams, Beatrice, the Florentine
the saint in glory. If men daily lived
knowing that they have soon to die,
to go to a now unseen and unknown
but none the less real world, or place
or state-if men daily realized the
nearness of eternity, and lived under
the imminency Of such a conviction,
holding it wildly and constantly be-
fore their eyes, how it would affect
their lives, influence them for better
things and nobler ways and purer ideas
and loftier aspirations. Men would
abstain from sin, would be intensely
in earnest, would be far more faithful,
pure and holy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-09

-Lr p. BAEcoCE- OF Avoca, n. T., n
veteran ct tho I'd =. I. ARTILLERY ,ad
~ tor thirty years .: tic BaSoccA&
Munscl Carriage Co, % Auburn. SAYS; 1
write to express my Er-sit1dc -oTt en.raR-
lous benefit resolved from d. EHcs Hoax
Cure. IscGcrcd Ter years, Is result ofarmf
he. t.om sciatlca With aCcrrcd my hcari
In the wors: so-m, my limbs swesled from
the ankles mp IhS.tcd until l was unable
to button ny cioL3ag; had sharp pains
about the heart, srsoihcr!aC spells n
shortncss OF breath Tor tAr-c months l
was unable to lie down, aud all he sleep l
got was In an arm chair. / was treated by
the best doctors hut gradually grow worse
About a yea, ago I commenced tatscy Dr..
Niles New Heart Cure and il saved NY Ike
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-09

A member of a church writes us for
our views as to why congregations are
small now and for the most part COM
posed of ONE He a y a great ma
jority of the male members seem to
take no interest in worship, and es-
pecially in the mid-week prayer meet
ings, but will attend regularly and sit
up late in hot halls attending lodge
meetings, and men and women on
Sunday nights prefer their piazzas and
gossip to the church and the worship
of Almighty God" We do not know
why this is unless it be for a want of
true religion and piety. With pro-
founder religious life will come pro-
founder views of duty. Men who real
1y love God will love to honor and
serve Him. When men really prefer
other things to the service of God they
show that the religions work in the
soul is shallow and defective. We
find this in a newspaper clipping, but
do not know whence it m or by
whom. The writer says:
ga man of God necessarily means
one who has undergone decisive re-
pentance for sins, and n being
tempted is enabled to say No. He must
also be a man of sacrifice, as well as
of obedience and faith. AS examples:
Those of Moses and Abraham. A man
of God must also be a man Of prayer,
as hat of Elijah. He must be a man
of service, of work, of activity. A nan
of God is a man with God"
Is there any thing wrong in that
If a man will live according to that
statement he will love the sanctuary
and be only happy in trying to glorify
God.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-09
HOME FOLKS

So far as this town is concerned
there is hardly any appearance of
government. Robberies occur both in
the day and in the night. In the broad
day time residences are entered and
pillaged, and no one gets hurt. A few
killings or ~hangings would nave a
salutary effect. There is a general
sense of uneasiness, and people are
increasing supplies in the home arsenal
for siege or sally. In the years immedi-
ately succeeding the great war the
conditions were such here hat a COM
pany of Minute Men was organized
and the soldiers were armed with six
teen repeating Spencer rifles. The late
General McRae was at the head of it,
but the captain is still living in the
city. If lawlessness continues to reign
an organization for defence of some
kind will nave to be formed, and if
formed it should be strong. composed
of at least 500 men of nerve.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-09

DIR. MILES MED.CaLC 20 Flkhart. Ind
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-09

The contrast is time and eternity.
It is now with you. Tomorrow may
never come to you. Time is very short
uncertain, fleeting. Eternity is just
beyond, just ahead, is inevitable, in
exorable, irresistible. Today passes
and hat may be the end. Beyond
time, beyond today, begins eternity.
It will not be long delayed in any
event. 1t is certain, perhaps almost
present with you. Solemn thought!
<'Be We also ready" The great poet
Dante thought so much, wrote so
much OF the great beyond, the invisi-
BILE world, the %unending, that as he
grew older he appeared to carry eter-
nifty in his stern, rugged, wrinkled
countenance, LINED with passion,
sclrred with thought, that he was
gazed upon by men as he walked the
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-09

There is sectionalism in churches in
the United States. 1t dates back more
than half a century. The north is the
cause Of il. WHAT ever disfiguring
scars remain the northern people are
responsible. 1t is so in regard to the
Methodists and Presbyterians. The
The north has been cock-sure all the
time and has treated southern Chris
tians withdiscourtesy and arbitrariness
often, and have made declarations that
we're far more satanic than Christian.
If the present war has with it any
healing power let it be felt. Unity
among brethren "of like faith and Or
der is always to be desiderated and &C
cepted, but there can be no genuinely
hearty union and love while n end
of the union makes faces, utters curses
and struts in fancied superiority of
wisdom, knowledge and rectitude and
says to the other end-"We are the
Lords"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-09
Here Il the Truth

The only time North Carolina is safe
from the ngro is when white men vote
white.
God pity the white man who has for
gotten to draw the color line-both So
cially and politically. The white man
who attempts to wipe it out ought TO
be wiped out with it.
Are you going to vote radical this
time, or white?-Joneshoro Progress.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-09

tive this year in statements. Too
much blow misleads all the way. The
state in campaigns overruns with
great orators. able statesmen, consum-
mate masters in debate. Let US be
moderate. The truth will not hurt.
and if defeat comes it will not be so
unbearable.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-09

Every campaign the talk as reported
in democratic newspapers is always
favorable and from everywhere. But
like some wars the deeds do not cor
respond with the pronunciamentO. The
democrats get licked at the count. Let
everybody be cautious and conserva-
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-02-03
FOR. THE FRUIT EARN.

How to Build a Practical Fruit and
& - ~ = hin Vegetable House, ~.
A fruit and vegetable house is a neces-
sity where any considerable quantity
of these products is to be housed. The
requirements are accessibility and the
possibility of maintaining low-but
not freezing-temperature during the
months of winter. "A cross section of a
house meeting these requirements is
shown herewith. A sandy or gravelly
knoll, if conveniently located, is Sc
lected and few feet of excavation is
made, the depth depending on the char
acter of the winter in the given locality.
Two feet will be enough in some places
"A greater depth will be required in
others. The earth thrown out is to be
retained to bank the walls, as shown,
thus making the depth below ground
greater. A stone wall retains the earth.
Above this is low structure of wood,
double boarded, with building paper
beneath both boardings. One set of
boards is nailed to the outside of stud
ding and rafters and the other to the
inside of the same, as shown. :.- -
r. T. The ends of the building are banked
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-02-03
] AGRICULTURAL HINTS
USING CONVICT :: Z u LABOR

How to Solve a Sexed Problem to
8 Everybody's Advantage. .
Il Between that sickly sentimentality
which makes him an object of such ten
der solicitude as to restrain him from
proper physical exercise, and that
brutality which drives him to despair,
the present-day convict has a hard time
of it. Much as we may sdeprecate the
latter, it is fair question if the former
mate consequences. s1 S$
" These reflections are suggested by the
interesting letter on Convict Labor
and Good Roads, from the pen of p. J.
Edwards, of Hillsboro, III. His sugges-
ton that convict labor may be employed
in the preparation of road metal will
surely meet with the approval of every
citizen who understands the meaning
of true philanthropy. We say this be-
cause we desire for the moment to re-
move from the discussion the economic
features of the case, and consider the
convict not as subject of our con-
demnation and punishment, but as one
diseased morally and needful of treat
ment and cure. ........ -.
/ What does such patient most need?
Not physician but willanswer that first
Eof all he must have healthful exercise
and plenty of it. When we come to apply
the remedy what do we find? That
public sentiment is opposed, and right
fully, to the competition of convictlabor
with free labor. How, then, shall the
convict be employed for.the public ben
eft without entering into competition
with free labor? In just such manner
as Mr.. Edwards suggests, only we
should extend his field of usefulness
just as far as the nature of the indiyid-
nal convict permitted, and make him a
worker upon the roadbed, giving to
3 TRUSTEES" such degree of freedom as
would aid to make them better men nd
fit them to return to honest ways when
their term of Imprisonment had ex-
PRED. Il %4>@"w" ... '.'5: J*'@> e.
# We have heard much of good roads of
late years; but most of the discussion
has ended with talk, and but little, COM
paratively speaking, has been accom-
plished. We believe this is largely due
to lack of concerted movement. We are
convinced that If the states through
which an air line road from, say, Buffa-
10, N. Y, to the Pacific coast were to
unite in the construction of such a high
way, and would employ no other than
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-02-03
s'GRoWINiG CELERY Il
A Method That Has. Reen Practices
with Great Success,


The. following is my plan for growing
celery: Instead of sowing the seed in
R hot bed or cold frame, as practiced in
Europe, it is sown in the open ground,
as soon as it is fit 10 work, in April, and
kept. carefully clear OF weeds until the
time OF planting, in June and July.
Ia our. warmer climate, if raised in
hot beds, as in England, a majority of
the plant would run to seed. The tops
are shorn off once or twice before
planting, so as to insure "stocky''
plants, which suffer less on being trans
planted. After the ground has been
nicely prepared, lines are struck out on
the level surface three feet apart, and
the plants set six inches apart in rows.
If the weather is dry at the time, of
planting great care should be taken
that the roots are properly ''frmed."
Our custom is to turn back on the row
and press by the side of each plant
gently with the foot. This compacts
the soil and partially excludes the air
from the roots until new rootlets are
formed, which will, usually be in 4s
hours, after which all danger is over
This practice of pressing the soil close
ly around the roots is essential in plant
ing of all kinds, and millions of plants
are annually destroyed by it's omission.
After the planting of the celery is COM
pleted nothing further is to be done for
six or. seven weeks, except running be-
tween the rows with the cultivator or
hoe, and freeing the plants of weeds un-
til they get strong enough to crowd
them down. This will bring us to about
the middle of August, by which time we
have usually that moist and cold atmos-
phere essential to the growth of celery.
Then we begin the "earthing up
necessary for the blanching and whiten-
ing of that which is wanted for use dur
ing the months of September, October
and November. The first operation is
that of handling, as we term it; that is,
after all the soil has been drawn up
against the plant with the hoe it is
further drawn close around each plant
by the hand firm enough to keep the
leaves in an upright position and pre-
vent them from spreading. This being
done more soil is drawn against the row
(either by the pillow, or hoe, as circum-
stances require), so as to keep the plant
in this upright position. The blanch-
ing process must, however, be finished
by the spade, which is done by digging
the soil from between the rows and
banking it up cleareto the top on each
side of the row Of celery. Three feet is
ample distance between the dwarf va
trieties, but when larger sorts are. used
the width of the rows should be four or
five feet.-J. p. Dillon, in Agricultural
Epitomist.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-02-03

convict labor, each. states prisoners to
work upon the roadway of that state,
the result would be such an era of good
road making as would soon lift the ag-
ricultural sections of the United States
out of the mire, transform travel and
life in the country as much as the paved
streets in the cities have added to the
comfort and pleasure of those who
dwell in them, and remove the heaviest
tax now resting upon agricultural pro-
Guction. This may be said to be senti-
mental way of going about it. But we
do many things from sentiment, and
more interest can be aroused in some
such interstate roadway than by all the
states in the union working single
handed and without purpose. .........
Such road would bring to its sup
port the wheelmen of the nation, and
they, have shown commendable spirit
of helpfulness anda willingness to bear
their share of the burdens attending
good roads. It would lead to the con-
struction of the states through which
this interstate highway passed of
series of laterals which would bring all
sections into connection with the main
avenue. 1t would make possible sum
1ner outing for thousands of people who
now are withheld from its enjoyment
by the expense attending, and would
transform the country into a scene Of
life and pleasure. such as now is wit
messed only in the country districts Of
certain European lands. gSst.%g ss@.,g..8..5t
Our prisons are to-day burden uDone
the people. They should be made self
supporting, and in doing this the high
est good of convicts may be conserved.
To use this labor in transforming the
boys and mudholes, which compose
large portion of,our country roads. into
dry, smooth highways, would be to
give to;it a Observation-Disclosures
to the, moral growth OF the men engaged
in it. OF: its advantages to the people,
especially to agricult wrists, there's no
room for discussion. Voice.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-02-03

The leading druggists sell Burnett's "Co.
coaine." 1t is an absolute cure for dandruff,
besides ma king the hair grow by nourish-
St., Boston, Mass, also issue pamphlet
which they send free to anyone interested,
entitled: 1.-THE Hair, Its Care and Man
agement." It would be profitable reading
for almost everyone because there are very
few persons whose hair would not be greatly
benefited by more careful attention than it
receives
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-02-03

Up Like the sides, and a door is placed
n one end above the earth in the posi-.
ton o1 OF the dotted Ines. Double doors,
with glass in the upper part Of each,
should s. be used. A curtain can be placed
over the glass, of the inner door to keep
the interior dark, if desired, to be drawn
when When one enters the building for; any
purpose. Such building can be cheap
" constructed and should prove very
ssseerl'vlAcable. 4 small ventilator can be
carried up from near the bottom and
out through the roof, if ineeded.-N. y.
Tribune. t. 81 ,,.7s
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CALIFORNIA Fzc syrup co.
81. .~ SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
LOUISVILLE, kY. NEW YORK, n.y..
1t Has a FOREIGN Sound,

1t Has a Foreign Sound.
, Mrs: White-Does your daughter speak
. Mrs; Brown-Well. she speaks something
fiuently, and it doesn't sound at all like Eng:
fish, so perhaps it may be French-Somer-
vile Journal So, tg1-.ss,.,gs..
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-02-03

The John A.. Salzer Seed Company, La
:: l40O barrels of their Celebrated aSa1zer's
Earliest 6 Weeks Market Potato to Texas
customers. This potato has the reputation
OF being the earliest, the finest favored and
the heaviest producing early potato in the
country.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-02-03
Her COmDlaint.

Mrs. Newrocks-I don't like this restau.
rant at all.
NewroclSs-Why not, my dear?
'Why, instead of calling the bill of fare
a menu they call the menu bill Of fare!"-
Puck
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-02-03

Cold milk absorbs7 odors very readily.,
but cold or warm II should never Sc
brought in contact with odors.- West
ern Plowman. 81 T H5Sss,a .ss
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-02-03

When lovers form combination an en-
gagement ring is the result.-Chicago Daily
News
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-02-03

Sore and stiff from cold; don't wait and
Suffer; use St. Jacobs Oil and get cured.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-02-03

It is not nearly always the richest people
who have the finest horse and buggy
Washington Democrat.