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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-04

There is a writer in Kansas who
knows how to sling ink, put on war
feathers, and show fight. 1t is a cor
respondent who writes to the Kansas
City Journal defying some white caps
who perpetrated an outrage upon one
Henry Kohne, beating him fearfully,
while his brave wife fought for him with
splendid g%allantry. A neighbor swore
out a warrant against the perpetrators,
and he was soon warned that they
would take swift vengeance upon him.
But he "does not scare a cent" but
publishes the following incissive and
artistic defiance in the White Cloud
Globe, as follows, which of its sort is
indeed hard to beat:
81 wish to say to you-you who had
a hand in this diabolical outrage-that
you are a set of low down cOwardly
ours that would tease a Gagged lion, but
run from a liberated tadpole! You are
so low down that you would rob your
mothers grave and sell her bones to the
juLk dealer! o are SO morally cor
rupt that the breath from your foul
lungs would kill the microbes of the
Texas itch! Neither will the flies blow
you nor the worms eat youi Neither
will the ants build nests in your
worthless skulls! Souls? If We have
them they are doomed to burn in the
hottest depths of hell. If you want me
you know where to find me. The in
itials of my name are P. n. Lear"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-04
BREvITIEs

Elk Senator Gray, of Delaware, is a
lawyer of ability and ranked as a dem
ocrat. He helped to elect Mckinley,
and this makes the president grateful.
He remembers his friends What
else could induce the little major to ap-
point a supposed political opponent
Rev. DR.. Henry Van Dyke accepts the
professorship Of English literature in
Princeton university. He declined a
similar offer from Johns Hopkins uni
versity. He is a Presbyterian. Prince
| ton is fortunate indeed.
The great English writer, James An
thony Froude, says that from the time
when Rome became an empire, mistress
of provinces TO which she was unable
| 10 extend her own liberties" (note this
| vital distinction) "the days OF her self
government were numbered" Food
| for thought for freeman and patriots.
Rev. James o. Murray, D. D., LID,
Dean of the faculty, and Homes pro-
| fessor of bellies and English language
and literature in Princeton university
died at Princeton on 9th inst. He was
a native of South Carolina, and was
born at Columbia on 9th November
1927. He was an able, accomplished
and learned divine and teacher-a most
worthy southron.
In the British House Of Commons
there are four members who are Amer
lean born. The following is published:
Henry NJ. Stanley, who was brought
up in New Orleans; F. A. Claiming,
son Of the Rev. n. HI. Claiming, OF
Boston, and nephew of the famous
preacher; Sir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett,
born in Brooklyn, in 1849, and his
brother, the poet, w. A. Burdett-Coutts,
who was born in Plymouth, Mass, in
1851"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-04
HOME FOLKS

The state loses a valuable and faith
full citizen in Mr.. John Robinson, who
died neal Raleigh on 18th inst. He was
a faithful and competent commissioner
Of agriculture during Elias Cars ad-
m~inistration. We knew him personally
and admired him. What a strong mar
physically when we last met him Now
he is gone forever, but he leaves a
good name and served his native Car
DINA as a worthy, useful citizen. He
was born in Arson county and was 81
years old.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-04

New York, March 29.-The Evening
World says: William K. Vanderbilt
has duplicated his wedding present TO
his daughter Consuelo. duchess OF
Marlboro, for his son, William X. Van
derbilt, Jr. Securities amounting in
value to $40, 600, 900 have been turned
over to the young man by his father"
Miss Virginia Fair, the bride TO be,
is said to have S. 0 900 on her own
right.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-04

The papers Of the state do not seem
to be crowding each other to second
Superintendent Mebane for re-elec-
ton on a democratic ticket Wilson
News.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-04

The Messenger regrets to hear of a
serious misfortune thai befel Prof.
Sanders Dent, of Wadesboro, a few
days ago, by which he was painfully
injured. We learn from The Messenger
of that town hat in attempting, with a
friend, Mr.Alexander McQueen,to jump
from the cars when in motion, and
greater than was thought, both had a
disagreeable experience. We quote
from our worthy contemporary:
"Mr. Mcqueen turned a sommersault
or two but suffered no other injury
than the muddying of his clothes. Mr..
Dent, however, was not so
He held on to the train just a little too
long and fell with a part of his foot on
the track, which, before he could re-
o it, was run over by n wheel of
the train. The toes of the foot were
badly crushed, the little toe being SO
severely injured that it was necessary
to amputate it at the first joint and
the next two had to be taken off at the
second joint"
He is getting on fairly we'll and We
hope no further evil will come from it.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-04

The old system of working six farms
with penitentiary convicts is to be con-
tinued. 1t is to be hoped with far diff
ferent results from those that marked
the combine work for two years. A
debt has been transferred by the un-
faithful, incompetent and corrupt gang
the exact magnitude of which is not
yet exactly ascertained, but it is more
than was lately supposed, and may
ever reach the great sum of $149, 900.
The South Carolina democrats appear
to have mismanaged and abused op-
pOrtunities to as great and d~isgraceful
extent as the combine in our own un-
fortunate state succeeded in accom-
plishing. The Augean Stables are in a
most deplorable condition. The people
will act the part Of Hercules.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-04

Kings Greenville Weekly congratu-
lates Wilmington upon the reelection
of Col. A. NJ. WaddelI to it's mayoralty,
and says: 1T is deserved and right.
He is the man for the next governor
of North Carolina" This is the first
gun for our eloquent townsman.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16

mates the world is the fear of disease
How many imagine all sorts of dis
eases; how many fear all sorts OF
| things as causes of diseases?
The sex fears are intense among
| young people of both sexes. Fears OF
disease are usually of long incubation
There are probably some diseases that
may be caused by imagination. Mind
can make diseases. That there are mind
cures, shows this, for it is possible that
mind can cure certain diseases that ii
causes. Life is not to live, but it is
| to be well and strong, and to be weak
/ is to be fearful, etc.
| Look at the moral and religious fears
| Who is it that has not a fear of ghosts
/ have; am ashamed of myself, but
can't help it. 1t is in my nerves and
not in my mind. This fear of ghosts
has been a potent factor in religion and
spiritualism. The originators of the
Old Testament had an awful fear of
the things in the air and the sky. Be
fore science had risen, imagination
dominated mankind in a way we can
not conceive.
A great many now fear the end of the
world. Some fear that when it is ho-
it will keep on getting hotter till every
thing burns up. others that when it is
cold, it will never be warm again anC
y
think that the earth is going to parct
up, and when it rains some fear an.
| other flood. Some fear that the world
will come to an end. Some have ever
set the time for this year. Conscience
fears are common. Children who play
| on Sunday seem to fear that they are
going to be struck dead.
Among the ancient fears is that OF
falling. Many cannot stand on &
hni fnr Of 70 oh;
dren cannot look at the cracks in 6
floor or in a mud puddle. The idea OF
hell is falling. In certain cases there
is fear of hills There are dreams OF
floating, the horror of falling off the
earth into space.
| Then there is the fear of being lost
There are those who cannot think OF
eternity without shuddering. Closeness
the sense of being confined, is another
form of fear. This merges into the
dread of being buried alive. Some
even feel this in foggy weather The
dread of water is singular. Infants
fear to touch it. This dread is over
come, and there comes a passion fol-
water. Wind fears are a group by
themselves. Children imagine all sorts
of things about wind. The wind has
the power to ply on the whole gamut OF
emotions. So celestial fears are COM
HULL NlOuuS nave stimulated lIQdBlI-
alton. The fear of weather is found in
our common hymns. Our world was
not habitable until bounds were set tc
weather. Fire fears, fears and dread OF
darkness are others. The fact that
these things are really inherited show
us the records of the indisputable fact
of the conditions of the early men,
One test of us all is the intensity OF
our fear. Fear is the basis of knowl-
edge. 1t has quickened the mind. The
root Of nearly every philosophy in the
world is fear Some say we fear moth
ing, but do we not all fear dishonor?
The question is, is fear adjusted prop
erly? Do we not fear those things
which We should not, and what we
should fear, we do not? Education
teaches us to love and fear Alright, said
Aristotle.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16

idea of the hero child Nearly every
| American tribe had its hero god
| Among the tribes of the north this hero
| is but a magician; in the south the
myth is of more poetic form; he is a
| father of his subjects, whom he in
structs, and when at last he is finished
| he leaves with the promise to return
These lores of the hero child are nc
mere nursery stories.
Primitive man recognized the divinity
of childhood and gave it all the beauty
they could imagine. The magnificent
folk tales are the tributes of civiliza-
| ton to childhood. We may say that
every child was born as Buddha and the
Christ were born. Every human child
| is divine; no matter in what cline he is
born, the Godhead in the universe is
large enough to fill each place and be
present in every infant. In some re-
| spects the human young is more human
than his parents. He is superhuman
as compared with the simple peasant
who was his father, or the hysterical
mother who bore him. The child is the
rather OF the man, and thus does he
prophesy the future Of the race.
Inc genius is at heart a child; the
child is at heart a genius The love pc
Rod in man has often been called his
second childhood, and there is truth
back of this, for in this selective Pc
ROD all men are alike, as all children
resemble. Woman is natures attem ut
to preserve the child in the adult. while
genius shows the attempt to preserve
1t in some special features in the other
sex. Here it is most of all, that the
conscience of kind manifests itself
most strongly. 1t is but the effort of
all childhood to perpetuate itself into
adult life.
hi y j.
The genius is natures attempt to
preserve the childhood. Even today the
child is the greatest prophecy ever
born from the inexhaustible womb of
nature. Nor shall the time ever come
when man shall forget to acknowledge
the leadership Of the child.
Major Powell says that every child
is born free of everything known to
man. From a creature destitute at
birth of all human attributes, he has
come in few years to the height Of
knowledge, to the highest attainments
known to humanity
Rousseau in Emile" said that if man
came into the world grown up he would
be an imbecile, an automata. What an
immense change from the amoeba to
the human infant. There the parent
and child are Identical while the hu-
man infant requires for a long time the
protection of the mothers arms.
In the gentleness and helplessness of
the child there is the prophecy of bet
ter and more perfect man yet to come.
If child study accomplished nothing
else, it is a kind of st. John, a fore
runner of the one who is to be mas
ter; of the one crying in the wilderness,
Prepare We the way!"
There should be put UP over the walls
of every city, over the doors of every
school, over the threshold of every
home, this sentence of the German phi
losopher: Being a child must not
hinder becoming a man. being a man
must not hinder becoming child. by
this sign, conquer"
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16
DR.. HODGES AQUARIUM.
Some of the Habits of the Creatures
Therein Described BY the Professor.

DR.. Hodge continued his talk on the
needs of nature study and on the bib
biography to some extent. To study ma
ture correctly, it is necessary to get
as close to nature as possible, to study
1t in the woods and fields Among the
books mentioned, in all of which DR..
Hodge pointed out dangers of a more
or less pronounced type and told where
in the books were of use, was Charles
Wright Dodges Introduction to Ele-
mentary Biology" Jackman's works,
DR.. Loge's Handbook of Nature Study,
for teachers and pupils" Arthur c.
Boyd's Nature Study by Months" Mrs.
L. L. Wilson'S Mature Study in
Elementary schools" consisting of a
teachers manual and two readers. The
leaflets of the Boston Society of Natur-
al History, and the nature study leaf
lets published by the state of New
York, and the Junior Naturalist, also
published in New York, were mention
ed as being of some value.
The laboratory class met at 130
O'Clock in the afternoon and were told
how to make and stock a simple
aquarium Dr. Hodge described the ha-
bits of some of the creatures in his
aquarium.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16
NERVOUS SYSTEM.
Or. Meyer Describes the Construction Of
the PROTOCOL.

DIR. Meyer gave a brief resume Of
Fridays lecture, and after a short de-
scription of the development of the
the eye in the foetus, spoke on the
subject of the development of the ner-
vous system. He described the con-
struction of the protocol and spoke or
Dr. Hodges work on the vorticepa.
This form ofprotozoa was found to have
what seems to be selective sense in
the way of food; it seemed to have a
sense of fear DR.. Hodge thought that
a certain form of education might be
given.
Various experiments of the same sort
have not given the same results, how
ever, and hence no conclusions could
be drawn from the research Of DR..
Hodge. He is inclined to divide the ac-
| tions of this creature into automatic
| and psychic reaction.
While we are almost certain that in
| the protocol and in the sponges there
is no nervous system, yet it has beer
| said that the hydra has some sort of
nervous development.
| In the next class of animals in the
medusa, for example, number of in
| teresting physiological experiments
have been made. We have not been
able to examine these for psychic re-
| actions to any extent, and know but
little of it. We have been indebted to
the study Of the nervous systems of
the worms for much of our knowledge
| of comparative biology.
In the athropoids, the worms,
and more so in the vertebrates, there
| is the segmented nervous system. The
| greater part of the brain substance in
the worms and athropoids is located
about the most important organ, the
| opening of the stomach, and in this
way the brain of man came to be placed
in the head. The development of the
larva of insects, shows that the cells
proliferate rapidly, some put out
| branches, authorization, which develop
! into the nerve fibres and ganglia.
DR.. Meyer went on to describe how
the sensations are carried from the
outer skin to the ganglia, and how
the reaction takes place.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16
INTEREST INCREASES
Summer School Prov.
ing Immensely
Popular.
DR.. HALLS LECTUHE ON FEAR.
Entertaining Lecture By
DR.. Chamberlain on the
Prophecy of Childhood.

The lectures at Clark University yes
terday seemed to be of such a nature
as to increase the interest of all the
students in their particular branches
more and more, and the attendance
was better than even on the day be-
fore
DR.. Hodge organized his nature study
class more fully and spent some time
in the laboratory. The evening lecture
given by DR.. Chamberlain was largely
attended and was such as to hold the
attention of every one.
The other lecturers carried on the
ideas begun on the other days, and Dr.
Hall, in his lecture on Fear" took an
other step in the evolution of the hui
man soul. DIR. Burnham's educational
conference was well attended, and sub
Jeets of school hygiene and physical
education were discussed. The pyscho-
logical demonstrations of Dr. Lfndley
seem to receive much attention, and
are carried on in an informal way
which makes them doubly interesting
Inc first reception of the season will
be given at DR.. Halls, Monday even
ing, from to II o'clock, to which all
interested in the summer school, as well
as the students, are invited The affair
as is customary, will be entirely infor-
NAL, its object being to give the stu
dents chance to get acquainted with
each other and with the people of Wor-
cester.
The new names on the register yes
terday were as follows: Agnes Heron,
Cleveland. Mrs p w Caorcb Ifol,,
oke; Margaret E. Quirk, Spencer; Anna
Monroe Gilchirst, Port Deposit, Nd. !;
Harriet Wilde, New York; Ellor z. Car
Isle, New Haven, Conn, IA Birch
street; Mrs. Jacob Tome, Port Deposit,
Md, 80 May St; Mrs. G. L. Smith, May
att Point, R. l.; Sarah L. Gould. Wor-
cester Mr.. and Mrs. W. Z. Buck, Wor-
cester; Charlotte Emerson, Worcestert
Mary Peet Sleeper, Worcester; Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas B. Lawler, Worcester;
Mrs. G. R. Gray, Worcester; Stephen
Salisbury, Worcester
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16
THE SUBJECT OF FEAR.
Or. Halls Lecture on One of Our Most In
tense Emotions,

Dr. Hall took FOR his topic, yester-
day, Fear" and spoke in substance as
follows: 1t must be evident from what
we know of the intensity of the strug-
gle for existence that the effort to sur
yive has been a severe one. Most peo-
pie do not come to maturity, and the
struggle has been so intense that per
maps the first primordial emotion next
TO pleasure and pain is fear. There is
abundant evidence that it is hereditary.
The process of culture in humanity is
largely the elimination of danger and
hence of fear. Fear dominated the
earlier human society. Pinult, one of
the earliest students on insanity, al
ways thought he must know the fear
or MS patients before he could dag
nose the case.
Fear affects circulation and nutri-
ton, everything. Most mind and faith
cures are the elimination of fears.
Fears are most intense in childhood.
Fear has retreated toward childhood.
and it bears traces Of the fears which
once dominated mankind. We have a
great many people who fear thunder.
More people seem to fear thunder
more than they fear anything else.
Noises appeal very acutely to fear.
Thunder has given a sense of reality
above us.
Many cures of this fear have been
wrought by an instruction in what
lightning really is. Death from light
ming is only half of one per cent of the
deaths in the world.
The horror of shock is highly intense
in some people. Shock sometimes causes
paralysis or even insanity. While we
cannot eliminate shock from the
world we can reduce it. Thought con-
sists Of a series of small shocks. To re-
duce shock to its proper intensity is to
reduce chaos to cosmos.
The third most common objects of
fear is the fear of animals. Especially
in children is this true. Some children
fear bears, some cows, some tigers.
These fears have a property of special
izing. There is morbid dread of blood,
Of insects, everything that huns and
buzzes. 1t is singular in the history
what potent factor in humanity fear
of animals has been. The story of the
evolution of mankind shows that for a
very long period there was continual
struggle between the great reptiles and
man. Man has prevailed and the fear
has been left on our minds. The fear of
smaller animals arises from the fact
that some of. them are poisonous.
The particular fear of eyes found in
infants is singular. There is a univer-
sal fear Of the evil eye in savages. The
eye is the most mobile organ; 1t APP
pears first in paintings; it is a factor
of love. God is sometimes conceived
as a great eye and the dread of God
is that he is spying on us. Infants
dread teeth, and especially If some are
missing or II tAssy are defective. A
German philosopher says that the kiss
seems to- set the seal of peace; to show
no more desire TO bite.
A fourth class of fear which doni-
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16
PROGRAM MONDAY.

Here is the program for Monday:
a. M, DR.. Hodge, institutions and
nature study"
8 a. M, DR.. Burnham, Hygiene of
singing and reading"
10 a. M. DR.. Sanford, Comparison Of
animal and human minds"
II a. M, DR.. Hall, Anger"
1.S0 to 2 p. m, DR.. Hodge, nature
study laboratory.
2 p. M, DR.. Lindley, Memory"
2 to p. m, Mr.. Goddard, laboratory
work in biology.
8 p. M, DR.. Chamberlain, "The first
civilizations and their ideals"
p M, DR.. Meyer, CHRONOLOGICAL
development of the human nervous
system"
5 p. M, DR.. Burnham, educational
conference.
Up. M, DR.. Lindley, psychological de-
monstration.
to ii p. m, reception at DR.. Halls
residence.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16
PROPHECY OF CHILDHOOD.
In Some Respects the Child is More HUI
man Than His Parents.

UdH IMAM TVS TdIoHIS'
The evening lecture was given by DIR.
Chamberlain on "The prophecy of the
childhood" and in substance he said:
How old the art of prophecy is in the
world cannot be known. Every nation
had some sort of anxiety to know the
destiny of the new born child. About
1000 years ago in the village of Galilee
an angel appeared to Mary and told
her of the coming of a son who should
be called Jesus and should rule the
world. The sacred writer's tell us that
the shepherds heard angel voices pro-
claiming Peace on earth, good will to
men, and new star led the magi from
the east. No poet better than Milton
has told Of the advent Of the Lord OF
the world.
Civilized races, like the Hindu and Sc
mite, have clothed their messiah with
all the beauties of which they can con-
ceive. But the savage tribes have an
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16

Briggs, 90 King street. Rev. T. Rich
ard Peede conducted the services, and
the body was taken to Millbury for in
terment.
Funeral services over the body of
Isora M, wife of Myron N. Reynolds.
were held at AZ King street yesterday
morning at 10 O'Clock. Rev. DR.. Alex
ander Lewis, pastor Of Pilgrim Church.
ofliciated. The body was taken to Bar
re for burial.
The funeral of Miss Josie e. Powers
took place yesterday forenoon at &
o'clock. A requiem high mass was Of
fered at the Church OF the Immacu-
late Conception at 8 o'clock. The body
was met at the door of the church by
the pastor, Rev. Robert Walsh and
escorted to the altar Rev. ]. II. Me-
Kechnie was celebrant of the mass and
the eulogy was delivered by Rev. Rob
ert Walsh. At the close of the mass the
choir sang Nearer, my God, to thee. y
The bearers were John James and
Nicholas Power, cousins of the de-
ceased, Nicholas Cummings, Dennis
O'Day and Thomas Mahoney.
For trunks and haps 0o 10 tbo De-
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16
SWEDISH AFFAIRS.

Eric G. Thoren, 54 Catharine street,
Is having a three-tenement house con-
structed on Forest avenue. l.. M. Pc
terson is the builder and the structure
will cost over $4,000.
ReV, Is. r. Forsell breaches at Hart
ford. Conn.,, today
capt. Hanna Westlund of the Quin-
slgamond corps of the Salvation Army
mas made arrangements for an ice
cream festival at the Army barracks
Saturday, July %.
Theodore Jacobson, formerly of Wor-
cester, but now of Minneapolis, will
sail for Sweden Wednesday.
Kev Nels Eagle has received word
from Presiding Elder ]. II. Mansfield
stating that he was on his vacation in
New Hampshire, but would come to
worcester to be present at the LAYING
OF the cornerstone of the new Thomas
street Church If he was wired al once.
MI Eagle decided that he would not
ooiige the presiding elder to come. as
ne pelleved him entitled to a rest.
shoes?" M Poiitou-toeo
Jewett--"Not when they are pointed to-
m Ias