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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-07

Appointed and Confirmed ms Admiral
and Major General

Washington, March 3.-The presi-
lent today sent to the senate the nom
nations of Rear Admiral George
Dewey to be admiral of the navy under
the act approved March End, 1899, and
Brigadier General Elwell S. Otis, U. S.
A. to be major general by brevet to
rank from February 4, 1899 for mill
tary skill and most distinguished ser
vice in the Philippines.
Soon after the nominations reached
the senate and executive session Of that
body was held and they were confirm
ed. Secretary Long cabled Admiral
Dewey as follows:
"Heartiest congratulations upon
your deserved promotion as admiral"
Later in the day, upon being inform
ed of Dewey's confirmation the secre-
tary sent the following:
The president adds his congratula-
lions on your confirmation"
Secretary Alger today n the fol-
lowing congratulatory message to Ma
jor General Otis at Manila:
You have been nominated and con-
firmed a major general by brevet in
the regular army. The president
wishes this message of congratulations
sent you, in which I cordially join"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-07

Newspaper men are in great force
when candidates seek Office and when
campaigns are on, but some how they
are not specially popular with men in
Office. Look at the conduct OF h leg
islators now in the matter or libel. A
bill was introduced { give newspa-
pers a fair showing and what came
OF 1t? The S~tatesville Landmark. one
OF the best conducted newspapers in
the state. says this:
Some time ago a libel law. which
met the appreciation OF all newspaper
men and was generally admitted TO be
fair and just, was in the
legislature and its passage urged Since
then we have heard nothing of the
measure and suppose that IL is sleep
ing the sleep of death. The newspapers
are mighty popular with the politicians
during a campaign, but generally when
the campaign is over they are forgot
ten"
Newspapers have more TO do in max
ing the regulations Of most politicians
office holders and seekers, han these
men have been able to do for them
| selves. Many a reputation has beer
| made by the active urgency Of men Of
| the Faber. Unfortunately said reputa'
ton has not been always wisely and
justly made.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-07

Frances Ann Kemble, of the fam
IL English family that produced two
very distinguished actors. John and
Charles Kemble, and the greatest of all
English-speaking tragediennes, Mrs.
Sarah Siddons, was herself a very great
actress, reaching its best attitudes
while still young. She despised the
whole business, and in the midst of her
splendid and unrivalled fame (she was
neice OF the Siddons and daughter of
John Kemble) she shook the stage dust
from her histrionic buskins and aban-
doned the life Of an actress forever.
Like the south's Mary Anderson, she
had a poor opinion of the stage and
freely expressed it. She wrote charm
ing letters and delightful books and
was a m Of pure character and
admirable intellectual gifts. We do not
remember to la read any verse from
her graceful, pure pen, until very re-
Gently. We copy what follows as it
gives encouragement and hope TO the
toiler and burdened wayfarer.
"a sacred burden is the life We bear:
Look on it, lift 1t, bear it solemnly;
Stand up and walk beneath it stead
lastly:
Fail not for sorrow. falter not for sin.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-07

Harrisburg, Pa, March 3.-The Ions
predicted break from Senator Quay
came on today's joint ballot. Three
members, Messrs. Hersch, Nackey and
Yates republicans) deserted his ranks
M voted for other republican candi-
dates. Hersch and Yates are Phila-
delphia friends of Senator David Mar
TIN, who went into the republican eau
Gus early in January and voted against
senator Quay, but who have since
aDided by the decision Of that meet
ing and voted for him. Mackey is from
Lackawanna county Until the voting
for senator began he was counted an
anti-Quay man., but he surprised every
body by voting for the senior a
Representative Hersch started the
break by jumping from Senator Quay
to Colonel George r. Hun, of Green
burg. The announcement OF his vote
was greeted with great applause from
the democrats and anti-Quay republi-
cans When the name of Representa-
i've Mackey was reached, he called
OUT Judge Charles (. Rice" The
mouse broke into tumultuous applause
when he voted. Representative Les
lie Yates was the next to change. he
going from Quay to Peter A. b. Widen
er, the Philadelphia traction
Neither Mr., Hersch nor Mr.. Mackey
give any reason for their change. Mr.
Yates said after the ballot: The
events of the past forty-eight hours
are sufficient explanation as TO WHY 7
changed my vote"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-07

The article in the Sewanee Review
cisive, but it is depreciative Of n of
the great nineteenth century novelists
Victor Hugo. With all his peculari-
ties and faults he was a great genius.
At one time laudation of him ran riot,
and now to underrate him is the vogue
with certain writer's. We do not
hold with Mr.. Rienhard in his view
of Hugo's true rank. We have read his
lyrics and two of his plays. He had
a high and exquisite lyrical gift. His
plays were revolutionizing in their
day. We never read but one of his
novels-"Les Miserabiles," and if there
is really a greater work of fiction in
all the world we hav never heard or
read of it. We do not say that it has
never been equalled, but it was not
by Balzac. We have read probably
his best work, so said to be by critics
''Pere Goriot," and we would rather
have written 1.-The Wretches," as Rein
hard calls Hugo's reputed masterpiece
than a half dozen such novels as the
one by Balzac named. We are merely
giving u own Judgment. We are not
ignorant of the place assigned to Be
zae -among his countrymen. We be-
-Heve Eugene Sue a greater novelist
than Balzac, but latter-day critics
would reject this. We are familiar with
all of the very greatest novels in En-
glish, and we do not know any novel
we would put above Les Miserabiles,"
and we have said that if compelled to
name one novel that was really the
greatest, we did not know but what
we would be forced to name the chef
sd'oeuvre of Hugo. We think the criti-
cism in the Review is a studied and
able under-valuation Of a great French
genius. We have some times read de-
precautions of Hawthorne and Poe, of
Scott and Thackeray, of Dickens and
George Eliot, n even of h supreme
master Of all h world, Shakespeare.
Dispraise of Milton has been ventur-
ed upon by hazardous faultfinders, as
has been the case with Wordsworth
and Byron, with Shelley and Keats and
Tennyson. Mr.. Reinhard says Hugo
had sublime lyrical genius" but his
fiction is mot "rated high" and that
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-07
But onward, upward. till the goal ye
win."

Last Sunday we wrote briefly Of
Rev. Charles Spurgeon. He was a
great practical preacher whose bur-
den was Christ the Saviour and Heller.
and whose chief end in preaching was
to awaken and save men from their
sins and from eternal death and dam
nation. Among all the ministers who
write constantly for the religious press
we know none who surpasses, or rivals,
in usefulness, in earnestness for good,
the venerable Rev. DR.. Theodore L
Cuyler, more than seventy-seven yea
of age, we believe, a retired pastor OF
the north, who uses his gray goose
quill for the e~dification of men and
TO save souls. We almost always take
time 10 read what he writes. Lately
he had a'timely paper on Preaching
to the Unconverted-" 1t is a. pity all
| preachers cannot read it. He writes in
| the Central Presbyterian, Of Richmond,
| Va. He shows what the Divine Found
er OF Christianity practiced and what
the greatest apostles and preachers of
| a later time practiced. We have space
| for but one extract now, but is is stim-
ulating and practical:
'"The three most conspicuous preach
ers of the eighteenth century Were
John Wesley, Whitfield and Jonathan
Edwards; and how faithfully and con.
stantly they dealt with the unconvert.
ed all my readers know full we'll. The
most successful preacher of this nine.
teenth century was Charles H. Spur.
1900 lob ox-a- oil L;r I1,,1raI- -.
sermons and observe what a large por
ton of them are aimed at awakening
the impenitent and bringing them Il
Jesus Christ. In one of my many talk
with him, he enquired, How far d.
your American ministers aim at tn
conversion Of souls?' Surgeons I'm
ceasing efforts to conve the out
siders' kept up an ~unceasing stream o
new converts into his church. He neve
had any 'revivals,' because his churcl
like Baxter's-never needed to b
aroused out of a torpor."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-07
NOT A CANDIDATE
ur. Bailey, Of Texas, Will Not Act as
Leader Of the Democrats I'm the Next
Gnnnrnsa

Washington, March 3.-Representa-
tive Bailey. OF Texas, announced today
that he would not be a candidate for
the democratic leadership in the next
congress. He stated to an Associated
Press reporter that his decision was
~irrevocable, although his friends appeal
ed TO him not TO make the statement.
The refusal OF the democrats yes
terday TO follow his lead in the demand
for the consideration OF the resolution
declaring General Wheeler and the
members who had accepted army COM
missions had thereby vacated their
seats induced him to make this an
nouncement.
MI. Bailey later gave out the follow
ing statement:
Il want it distinctly understood that
l am not actuated by any feeling OF
piQue or personal disappointment, but
i am proceeding purely upon the idea
that as a large number OF democrats
are unwilling TO insist upon an ODE
dience to a perfectly plain provision OF
the constitution, they ought not TO be
made responsible for the leadership OF
a man who believes that the constitu-
ton is the supreme law OF the land
and ought to be obeyed at all times and
by all men. i would raise the same
question again, and / will raise II as
often as it presents itself, but when l
raise 1t from my place in the n OF
the party / must take the responsible
ty and others will not be compelled TO
share the responsibility with me. l be-
lieve hat the democrats who voted TO
allow these military appointees OF the
nrncidnnt 70 vntntn fhnir onntC In rnn
gress greatly mistake the sentiments
Of their democratic constituents. 1t is
utterly impossible for me to believe
that any man in this country is more
popular with the democratic masses
than the constitution, a reverence for
which has been the chief article of our
faith. 1 regret the vote almost beyond
expression because / doubt IL, with that
precedent established, any appointee OF
the president will ever again be denied
a right to sit in the house OF represen-
tatives."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-07
WILMINGTON. \.
POT POURRI

Lewis Carroll made a distinguished
name as the author of four children's
books known the world over as "Alice's
Adventures in Woodland" "Alice's Ad-
ventures Underground" 1.-THE Hunt
ing of the Shark" and Through
the Looking Glass" He was a superior
mathematician, a teacher at Oxford
University for tens Of years, author of
a logic, and yet gifted with n Of the
most original and fantastic minds the
world has seen. His real name was
Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, and
he was in Episcopal orders His books
have almost universal fame and have
delighted tens of thousands of children
on five continents. These books are
regarded by the English critics as in
comparable and inimitable. He wrote
very amusing verse, and after his
death. which occurred last year,, a small
volume OF verse entitled Three Sun
sets and Other Poems were published
and they are held in England to be OF
genuine poetic merit. His excellent
serious poems surprised his friends
and admirers, who count among older
heads by the tens of thousands. He
was BORN in 1892, and was the son Of
Archdeacon Charles Dodgson. He was
educated at Rugby and at Oxford. He
was a laboriouS worker all his very
useful life. He loved children with
singular devotion and yet he was new
er married. AS a good specimen of his
more serious fun in verse we copy this
stanza from "Phantasmagoria:"
shakespeare, I think it is, who treats
OF ghosts in days of old,
Who gibbered in the Roman streets,
Dressed, if you recollect, in sheets
They must have found it cold.
OF writing nonsense, he wrote:
1--we tried, and can only a
I'm sure you couldn't do it e.
Ven If you practised night and day,
Unless you had a turn that way
And natural ingenuity"
The New Century Review (British)
says of his p~osthumous volume of Sc
rious verse, that IAN exquisitely del
icate fancy, tinged with a tender I'M
dernote Of pathos, characterizes them.
This volume contains many very fin
2ished and very beautiful pieces"
One of the poems he calls The Val
Hey of the Shadow of DEATH" and from
it we take these lines:
1T could not see for binding tears
The glories of h west;
IA heavenly music filled mine ears,
A heavenly peace my breast.
Come unto Me, come unto Me
All we that labor, unto Me
Ye heaven-laden, come to Me
And I will give you rest"
The writer of the paper in the New
Century, Mr.. c. M. Altman, concludes
with this happy suggestion:
Perhaps, after all, the fittest epitapf
we could inscribe on his tomb are the
simple and touching words, the spirit
of which he would have so ~fervently
endorsed
".A little child shall lead them.'"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-07

We We're sorry to hear of the death
Of Mr.. Michael Glennan, the veteran
newspaper man of Norfolk, Va We
had the I~leasure of a personal &C
q%uaintance with him, and in common
with all men who knew him, had only
kindly appreciation of and good will
for him. He vas pleasant and genial,
and was one Of those gallant Irishmen
who fought on the side Of the right
and hazarded his life in the service of
the Lost Cause. The Messenger re-
grets the death of so faithful and true
a man, and such a staunch friend Of
the south.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-07

LOO, ne dIlr1uS, Dy SOBER JuoScS VI /
literature" He finds very little In
Hugo's fiction to admire, and says that
he had mot a spark of humor, not one
original character creation, not even a
single deathless ~carfcature to his
credit" but he admits that his novels
have had admirers to be counted by
the hundreds of thousands" Among
these IL the last forty a have been
the foremost minds, the best finished
scholars, the most eloquent statesmen
and actors, and refined and elegant
men Of letters. Mr.. Reinhard goes SO
far as to say Hugo's are
'sterile"-"a mongrel breed" But he
Is pleased TO admit that he was one
of the greatest singers Of all ages"
meaning a iyricist. He is a poet but a
failure in fiction. BAH. Mr.. Gray's pa
per the VILLAIN in Shakespeare and
Moliere" is really fine and instructive.
It shows a very Intelligent study of the
greatest French comedy writer and
the greatest of dramatists and poets Of
all the world. 1t is a skillfully wrought
discussion.
We have called attention twice to
the merits of the new life of General
Jackson by Lieutenant Colonel G. F.
| r. Henderson of the English army, in
two volumes. It is a m~eritorious work
and has been cordially greeted on both
sides Of the Atlantic. Coming from an
English soldier and author it is a very
noteworthy work. Its title is Stone
wall Jackson and the American Civil
War" Longman, Green & Co., Of New
York, are the American publishers
The critic in the Review" declares
that Jackson is americas greatest
genius in the art and practice of war;
Colonel Henderson does not say that
Jackson was no doubt a genius in war
and quite Napoleonic in some of hi:
People will differ as to who is tn
greatest" genius Of the great war
Genera Joseph E. Johnston, a grea
soldier and most brainy, held tina
General Bedford Forrest was the great
est genius on either side who appeared
III liz wal. oee d6ICTdl bTdOlSy L
Johnson's book on General 10. John
ston. Many southern men who served
Under Johnston believe him to hav,
been the greatest American soldier. W
that General Robert E. Lee was tn,
greatest soldier of this continent. Rea,
General Longs life and learn. The eel
brated Colonel Chesney, of the Brit
ish army, the foremost war criti
of his time, now dead, helt
that the three greatest soldiers Of tn,
English-speaking race were Marlbo
rough, Wellington and Lee, not in ram
in the order named, for he named then
according to age. The head of tn,
British army, General Lord Wolseley
a distinguished writer on war, as wei
as in the field, says plainly that LIE
was a greater soldier than Wellington
and holds him first among all Ameri
cans. Colonel Henderson thinks Jack
son greater than Grant. Of tina w
can have no doubt. When you compar
northern generals with southern w
musl Hol loSe Slgnt OF the vast adVant
age those of the north had in lumber
equipments, etc. When Jackson die,
Lee lost his right hand. H was ndee
a great, a most successful and splendi
soldier and as pious as great. The re
viewer, Mr.. Patterson, regards Jackso.
as greater h any of the marshal
Of Napoleon" and hat may not b
an exaggeration.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-07

It Is not a cause for wonderment IL
Governor Russell should feel sore over
his defeat But really did he ever con-
sole himself with the belief that his
course would stand approved by a COM
petent. intelligent democratic legisla-
ture7
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-07

A remedy for Nasal Catarrh which
is drying and exciting to the diseased
membrane should not be used. What
is needed is that which is cleansing,
soothing, protecting and healing. Such
a remedy is Ely's Cream Balm. To test
it a trial size for 10 cents or the large
for so cents is mailed by Ely Brothers,
Sc Warren Street, New York. Druggists
keep it The Balm when placed into
the nostrils, spreads e the MEM
brane and is absorbed. A cold in the
head vanishes quickly.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-07

The talk in Washington is that Jeter
Pritchard, the Tennesseean in the sem
ate, will be made a judge. Does Jeter
know any law? Does it really require
in these piping political times that a
man shall know law to be a judge? II
so how in the world did some men ever
get on the bench in this and other
states? 1t must have been by mis-calls.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-07

Hon Stephen Mcintyre, senator from
noDeson and Columbus counties has
made an enviable record as a public
servant- he stood four square on all
moral questions and pursued a wise
and safer course throughout the session
his adopted county may well be proud
OF him--Charity and Children.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-07

Rev. DR.. Cuyler writes that the small
colleges and not the great institutions
of learning turn out the great men Of
our country. 1t mentions a number OF
distinguished if not really great men
to illustrate. His plea is specious and
his facts are at fault. We doubt If he
ever saw a catalogue of the University
of North Carolina or the University
Of Virginia. He should read up. He
says, for instance: That when Polk
was graduated from the Universe
ty of North Carolina it was a small
college and so with the other pres
idents. He says:
"Old William and Mary's in Vir-
ginia furnished Thomas Jefferson
James Monroe and John Tyler. Hamp-
den-Sydney produced General William
Henry Harrison; West Point academy,
General Zachary Taylor and Ulysses
S. Grant; North Carolina college Jas.
K. Polk; Dickinson, James Buchanan;
Williams, James A. Garfield; Bowdoin,
Franklin Pierce; Union, Chester A. Ar
thur; Kenyon, Rutherford B. Hayes,
and Miami, Benjamin Harrison"
But the great universities now were
small affairs in the past. What is there
offered by small colleges" that can
not be secured at great colleges?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-07
A Compress Company In Hands Of q
Receiver

Augusta, Ga, March 3.-Boykin
Wright. OF Augusta. has been appoint
ed receiver OF the Augusta Compress
Company by Jude Emory Speer. The
application was made under the bank.
ruptcy Law. Ire amount involved Is
something like $50. o0o. represented in
various creditors. II Is claimed in the
petition that the compress company In
insolvent.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-07
The Grip cure that Does Cure

Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets re-
moves he cause hat produces La
Grippe. The genuine has L. B. Q. on
each Tablet. 25c.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-07

Strange as it may strike some read
ers there is such a things as "incen-
diary microbes hat destroy, cause
spontaneous combustion and much loss
of property by CONGREGATIONS. A
Frenchman of science, in La Nature
(Paris) has an interesting paper Upon
bacteria that cause these results, and
tells how men of science who were
skeptical nave changed their opinion
and accepts the facts as indisputable.
We make an edifying extract from
the paper of NJ. de Loverdo:
But side by side with these inoffen-
sive dilettanti, h seem to exist only
for the joy of showing their brilliant
colors Of the sun, the microbian world
Observation-Disclosures a number of
groups Of very bad neutrality-suspicious.
ers, murderers and vandals, who, not
content with attacking the lives of our
selves and our domestic animals, car
ry their rage for destruction so far as
to set fire to our property. And IL they
pay dear for it, for the flames destroy
them also, they do all in their power
to bring about this result. Many cases
of spontaneous combustion are incon-
testably their FORK.
Although the cause of these COM
bustions seem to have been known and
experimentally proved as far back as
Liebig's time. it is only recently that
it has been established to the salts
faction both Of scientists and practi-
can men,"
Situation At Manila Unchanged
Manila, March 3, 10 p. m.-The Unit
ed States gunboat Concord has arrived
here after a weeks cruise along the
west coast Of the island of Luzon. The
only incident of her trip was the burn
ing OF a schooner loaded with supplies
for rebels at Dagupan. the terminus
of the railroad. The natives fled and
abandoned the town when the gunboa
anchored in the bay.
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