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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-08
K,sEyITIES

The imminent war between Great
Britain and the TransvaaI is a sac
commentary upon the recent peace
convention in which the former partic-
pated. War is brutal and "hell' t
ed loose. and should never be resorted
to save in extremity. Exhaust every
other resource first.
There is am editor in Georgia some
thing of the Manly stripe We suppose.
He has behind him fool negroes with
arms to sustain his stupidity.
Chicago ON 5th boiled at SO degrees
in the shade. Wilmington sweateG
nightly at sc only without reflection
of any sort.
Sampson having achieved so much
of fame through Mckinley, Bob Evans
& Co., without fighting a battle, he is
now willing to retire upon his laurels
he never won
Taxpayers will please note this
| pleasant, animating item. The present
war averages SIS, 0O0, 900 a month, or
nearly so, ard it will soon cost much
more. 1t has cost s120, 900, 900 Of their
hard earned none this year. Before
McKinley's craze began it S $4,000,
900 a month or $48, 900, 900 yearly.
The Prince Of Understanding fash
ion setter for the British-wil wear q
Soff hat of coroo bind h<
thinks he looks more plebeian in g
low crown
1t turns out there there are many
negro communities all about in Tia
south They are in North Carolina
Maryland. Alabama, South Caroline
and possibly other states.
The religious press in the big NORTH
land is silent, hat In hand, in thu
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-08
\ DOUBLE
Two "f Clerk Fortunes Dau.hters
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. at worE-Agri-
cultural College About Full
Especial to The Messenger.)

Especial to The Messenger.)
Raleigh, n. c., September 6.-There
was a double wedding here which was
quite a surprise, two daughters OF
Clerk Fortune, of the United States dis
trict court, being the brides. It was
the date fixed for the marriage of Miss
Frances Fortune to James E. Bailey. of
M~arshvil.e, N. c.
This morning an holr before the time
set for this wedding, Clerk Fortune re-
ceived a telegram asking him to meet
b. E. Hamrick, of Shelby, at the train.
He found the latter had come to marry
Miss Bessie Fortune, they having plan
ned this surprise sometime ago. so at
the homes of the brides Rev. DR.. Skin
ner performed the double ceremony.
Hamrick is a SON OF ex-Sheriff Ham
rick, of Cleveland.
Presiding Elder Lewis Swenson, who
is given charge of Mormon church work
in North Carolina, arrived here today.
He says ~ffty-seyen counties are in the
North Carolina conference, and the
southern states mission embraces four
teen conferences and 500 elders. Forty
five of these are or soon will be at work
n North Carolina, also eight local work
ers. Elder Swenson will make Colds
boro conference headquarters and went
there this afternoon He regards North
Carolina as one of the best fields for
work.
President Winston says tonight tina,
III applicants for admission TO tn.
freshman class at the white Agricultu.
raj and Mechanical college have alread,
been examined and twenty-five reject.
ed. Those rejected were in what uset
to be known as the preparatory depart.
| ment, now obsolete. He thinks SO grea
a number Of applicants for admission
| We're never before examined, nor 3,
! many rejected. There are 100 more an
p~licants FOR admission. He SAYS tn,
college is about full and that Il is doubt
full whether any can be received afte
this week. The number of tudent
from Raleigh Is hot larger than from
other places. Nearly all the student
are taking regular courses. Five or ST,
take special courses.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-08

The other day Murat Halstead well
kpown northern journalist, was Kissed
in Cincinnati because Of some things
he said about the war. We thought so
little Of it we did not read what he
said The New York Evening Post
makes out a case against him of posi-
tive classifying. It says he either lied
some time ago when he praised the
FiIipinos or he lied in his lecture
when he DETAINED them The Evening
Post says:
THE noble man who was presently
so hot against traitors" admitted that
he had Intentionally not told the
truth in his book" as when he wrote
it he did not think we should be max
ing wal On the natives. Thus does this
indignant denouncer Of treason place
himself alongside Colonel Henry, who
was willing to forge for his native Ian
If Halstead cannot die for his country
he will at least lie for her"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-08

He Denouuees N False the Ssasemens
Of District Attorney DcrnarA-shep.
pard Co~rroborased BY . Letter from
His Son
Especial to the Messenger.)
Greenville, n. c.. September s.-After
reading in yesterdays papers the state
ments District Attorney Bernard made
relative to the attack on him Saturday
night. your correspondent had another
interview with Mr.. b. s. Sheppard.
who gave the following for publication:
II do not intend TO dignity a dirty
mean wretch like Bernard with a
newspaper controversy, but I viii not
allow him to create the impression. as
he is seeking to do, that my attack
upon him was instigated or encouraged
by his personal or political enemies.
I solemnly assert upon the honor OF
an innocent and injured man that nc
human being had any information or
intimation that I intended to attack
him and he knows in his guilty oul he
lies when he says that act was insti-
gated by his political or personal enc
mics. He also knows he lies when he
says that / did not denounce him, at
the time 1 fired upon him, as the de-
bers of persons. black and white, stand
ing near him who heard it and will
so testify: but he did o need me TO
tell him the cause OF the attack. In
his black and guilty heart he knew the
cause and when he was fleeing like a
cowardly cur he knew he was fleeing
from the wrath Of an outraged man
As further evidence that Mr. Shep-
pard was not influenced by personal
and political enemies OF Bernard To
make the assault, he showed a letter
from his son. who is off at schhool and
who has not been in Greenville in four
years. This letter was dated the 4th
inst, and in part reads as follows:
Dear Papa:-I read his morning in
The News and Observer that you had
shot at Claude Bernard. 1t was nc
more than / had expected. Write and
tell me all about it. You ought to nave
practiced shooting before you tried
sooi AdAo III pupcI SdiO ludl al
they regretted was hat you missed
your mark. What did they do about IL
and where is Claude Bernard now:
L was mad when 1 heard about ii that
o did not kill him"
Numbers Of parties at the depot al
the time of the shooting say emphati.
cally Sheppard did accuse Bernard Of
running his home.
Your correspondent was present a.
the trial before the justice and hear
Sheppard face him with the charge
while Bernard was on the witnes.
stand. There were many other false.
hoods in Demands statements.
Your correspondent alone is the au
thor of every telegram TO the pres.
from Greenville bearing upon the mat
ter and is in position to substantial,
every word that has been sent.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-08

Long ago-ten years or so-The Mes
senger urged the multiplying of the
smaller industries for North Carolina.
IL took a statement of a Connecticut
editor who addressed a meeting i'm the
city Hall as a text for an arti-
cle-that his state lac flourish
ed, grown rich, not by great manufac-
turing enterprises, but by the multi
tude of smaller industrial occupations.
II Wilmington had a hundred such and
ten large cotton mills it would have all
Of $4,000 inhabitants. small cotton
mills for smaller towns are attracting
fresh notice. The Athens (Ga.) Ban
=: ner says:
The recent success of the people of
Fort Valley in securing a 10, O00-spindle
cotton factory from Springvale, Me-.
serve as a stimulant to other progress
l V places in Georgia, which are Just
now deep in agitation on the subject.
Valdosta already has s15O, 900 subscrib-
ed for a cotton factory and the COM
pany has been organized and is ready
to build. Tennille people have sub
ScrlDed 5000 for a similar
and are now making arrangements to
double the mount. A company has
been organized at Dallas for the pur-
pose of putting up a $780, 900 mill, a large
part of the stock for which has already
been subscribed. A new S125, 900 mill is
to be erected i'm Atlanta. Fort Gaines
is promised a new cotton factory, and
a charter has been granted for the
building of the Rushtnn Mill, near
Griffin"
Small cotton mills costing from
, $40, 900 to $4,000 might be erected with
benefit to communities all around
North Carolina. There are in opera
ton now a good many smaller mills,
and all make money, we believe. When
we'll managed they are quite sure to
pay. The Charleston News and Cou-
rier notes that several small mills are
operating now in South Carolina, and
with Conspicuous success and it is
of the opinion that there is not a
county seat in the state which could
not have a mill of it's own if it's mon
eyed men could be induced to work in
unison toward that end. And we hope
to see the day When the merry music
of machinery that is turning out arti-
cles for common consumption will be
heard in every own of any consider
able size from one end of the state tc
the other"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-08

Probably in no country has there
chief official than that of Mckinley IN
dealing with the Captain Obelin M.
Carter case, now so familiar to the pub
lie. When this officer Of the United
States Army was stationed at Savan-
nah, Ga, in 1890, he managed, by 1896,
to get possession of about 81, 000, 900 of
the money of the taxpayers of the
United States. He WIS contaminated
and found guilty on every charge. He
was to be dismissed from the army,
fined $40, 900 and undergo a term of i'm
prisonment. What followed? Not the
carrying out of the courts verdict, but
the Interference of the president. the
Chicago Record tells this:
anticipating the courts finding, Car
ter's counsel went direct to President
Mckinley and induced him to send the
case for review to an outside lawyer,
an unprecedented proceeding. Ex-Sen-
atOr Edmunds was chosen by the pres
ident. Mr.. EdmundS reported that some
of the papers were not properly intro
duced, but hat without these the find
lHSS Oh Tie court were lully JuSllllSu.
From Mr.. Edmund's hands the presl-
lent had the papers sent to the at
tOrney general, a proceeding also with
out precedent, and they are there at
this time, non-action being justified by
the absence Of one of Carriers counsel
in Europe. The case has been the most
remarkable of its kind in the history
of the government. The extent of the
frauds was u~nexampled, while their
character was Of a fagrancy never be
fore attempted"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-08
home FOLKS

An intelligent writer in a long COM
m~unication in the AsheviIie Citizen,
urges very strongly the. claims of Gen.
Julian S. Carr, for U. s.. Senator as
successor to the defunct Marion But
Ter. This voice from the West" will
probably have many an echo in that
section.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-08

Always shake into your shoes Aliens
Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It
keeps your feet cool, prevents sweating
feet, and makes your endurance ten
fold greater. Over a million wheel peo-
pie are using Aliens Foot-Ease. They
all praise it It gives rest and comfort
TO smarung, hot, swollen. aching, feet
ano Is q certain cure for ingrowing
nails. AT all druggists and shoe stores,
Zsc- Sample free by mail Address. Al
len s.. Olmsted, LIE Roy. N. Y
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-08

presence of the great Mckinley and his
late voice for war" The New York
Evening Post notes:
The religious press OF the country
appears to have been struck dumb by
President McKinley's grisly speech at
Pittsburg- OF the dozen or more OF
this weeks denominational journals
which we have looked over, only one
or two SO much as refer as a ratter
OF news to McKinley's summons 20 the
slaughter, and not one utters q word
of either approval d condemnation"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-08

Polk county, North Carolina, has =
war hero worthy of notice. 1t is Ser
geant Clement J. Jones, a member Of
the Tennessee regiment in the Philip
pines His bravery amounting to ex-
treme recklessness is written up by the
San Francisco Cab. Over the trenches
behind which was the regiment, waved
a Filipino flag. We copy:
"Boys. 1 am going to get that flag
said Jones, and off he started. Jones
is a big man, standing over six feet in
his stockings. and he looked taller
tina ever when he started out alone
over the 'poddy' field for the Filipino
trenches.
The enemy was at first too much
surprised at the mans daring to fire
upon him. but they soon opened up
and a perfect hail of lead few around
the gallant soldier. When the fire be-
came too hot he would lie down for a
few seconds, pick of a venturesome
Filipino, and then resume his march
toward the trenches. When he reached
them the enemy around the flag broke
and raj and Jones seized the flag and
bore it back in triumph to the Ten
nessee camp. That Filipino flag is now
one OF the treasures OF the Tennessee
regiment"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-08

Charleston. s. C., September 6.-The
United States tug Nazenscot from Key
west reached Port Royal Monday even
ing She bad twenty-o0e persons
aboard, and although there was no
sickness among the passengers, zone
OF them were allowed 30 land and Abe
was ordered 20 Sapoelo 4nnedia&eay.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-08

Mrs. Jennie Martin, of Yadkin coun-
ty, lately deceased, at SO years Of age,
left 26S descendants. The Winston Re-
publican gives this account:
"She was the mother OF twelve chill
dren. Seven of whom she raised to be
men and women Eight Of them sur
vive the mother. There are 81 living
grandchildren and 1874 great-grand-
children living and Is among the silent
sleeperS. The great-great-grand-chil-
dren number 10 on earth and one in the
better land, making a total of 26S living
and As that are no more"
A good and useful old age with a
host of descendants to rise up and
call her blessed"
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-05-12

AIuleIoes eql Gynou GpdmoId o. SY,uu.
nave paIu on or peIore the nrst day vi
March in which he proposes to vote,
his poll taxes as prescribed by law for
the previous year. Poll taxes shall be
lien only on assessed property, and
no process shall issue to enforce the
collection OF same except against
assessed property.
Section 5. No male person who was
on January /, 1867, or at any time
prior thereto, entitled to vote under
the laws of any state in the United
States wherein he resided, and no
lineal descendant of such person shall
be disqualified by reason of his failure
topossess the educational qualifications
provided in section of this article;
provided he shall have registered in
accordance with the terms of this Sec
ton prior to December /, 1908. This
general assembly shall provide per-
manent record of all persons who reg
lister under this section on or before
November /. 1908, and all such per
sons shall he entitled to register and
vote at all elections by the people OF
this state, unless disqualified for other
causes; provided, such persons shall
have paid their POLL taxes as required
by law.
The law further requires oil elections
py the people to be by ballot and all
elections by the legislature to be by
viva voce vote. All persons convicted
OF crime and all persons who deny the
being of Almighty God are also de-
barred from voting under the terms of
the proposed act.
Various amendments to the amend
ment will be offered and from among
them all it is is believed satisfactory
electoral qualification can be estab-
lisbel
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-05-12
BILL ARP'S WEEKLY LETTER
BARTOW MAN VISITS TIE CLAS.
SICAL CITY OF ATHENS.
SCENES REMIND HIM OF OLD TIMES
Quotes u Sentence or Latin as Appropriate
To Changes Old Father Time
Has Wrought.

"Tempora mutantur ct nos mutamur
in ills" l am now in Athens, the
Classic City, and must quote some
Latin to bc classic, too, and show that
have not forgotten my alma mater.
"rhe times have changed and we
must change with them," said the
Latin poet 1000 years ago, and this
maxim is more striking now than it
was then. The changes are more rap.
i'll and more radical. Old Franklin
college, within whose unpretending
walls L walked and studied and ex-
panded my youthful Mind. has grown
to be an university and we old men
are s;raining our minds to keep up
with the new order, the widening of
mental and physical training which is
nov offered to our boys.
Time was when we thought that DR..
Church and Professors Mckay, Wal
dell, Leconte, Jackson, Stevens, Hull
and Nahum Wood knew all that was
worth knowing in this sublunary
world; when there was no higher
honor than to he Phi Kappa or Il
Den.osthcnian orator or to he chosen
as Junior orator of one Of these
societies. Time was when to be in
love with lovely Athens girl was in
itself liberal education, for they
were fair to look upon, refined III man
ners and fascinating in conversation.
There were only score or two of them
then, and they had the pick of 1G0
students, young men of the best families
Of Georgia aud her sister states, and
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-05-12
ROUSE PASSED REPEAL BILL.
ALABAMA REPRESENTATIVES SUS.
TAIN GOVERNOR JOHNSTON,
MEASURE IS SENT TO The SENATE.
Franchise Amendment, Similar to the
North Carolins Law Is Intro
duced In tho House.

The Alabama house Of representa-
tives, Thursday night passed the bill
providing for the repeal of the act
calling a constitutional convention to
be held, by vote of 60 to 33. Forty
one of those who voted for repeal
were democrats.
The bill proceeded one step further,
Friday. Mr.. Tunstall, in the house,
moved n reconsideration of the vote
by which the bill passed that body,
but on motion of Mr.. Brandon his
motion was laid upon the table by
a vote of so to %. The bill, there
fore, went to the senate and was re-
ferred to the committee on constitu-
tional revision. Four members of
this committee oppose the repeal and
three favor it.
The assembly is already directing
its attention to amendments to be
submitted to the people in the next
state election. A franchise amend
ment, fashioned after the North Car
olina law, has been introduced into
house. The qualifications prescribed
in this bill for n voter are in addition
to those already imposed by the pres
ent constitution and are as follows:
Section B. Every person offering to
vote shall be at fhe time legally reg,
istered voter as herein prescribed and
in the manner hereinafter provided by
law, and the general assembly of Ala.
bama shall enact general registration
laws to carry into effect the provisions
of this article.
Section 4. Every person presenting
himself for registration shall be able
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-05-12
Miss Hanna Shot a Wild Cat.

Miss Ruth Hanna, daughter of Sena.
tor Hanna, is the heroine of a wild cat
hunt which occurred on her fathers
game preserve near Thomasville. Ga.
recently. For some time large wild
cat has been annoying the other oc-
cupants of the preserve, and finally
Miss Hanna determined to get its
scalp.
Accompanied by Howard Hanna,
her cousin, both being mounted on
fleet horses, she started on tho chase
before sunrise. The scent was taken
up by hounds, and for nearly two hours
the two cousins rode over rough coun.
try. Miss Hanna shot the cat when i.
took refuge in tree. She rescued the
carcass from the dogs and bore it home
as trophy. Sportsmen said it was
one OF the biggest animals of the kind
ever seen in that part of the State.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-05-12

again in another world. Some OF
them who were dear to me have left
children or grandchildren who greet
me kindly for their fathers sake.
Fond memory recalls the Churches,
Dawsons, Ferrclls, Howards and Boil.
ing Stovall, whom 1 loved, and there
was the gentle Henry Timrod, who
was as lovable as "a timid school girl.
How often did We see him brushing
the dew from of the upland lawn
alone or taking his evening strolls
| without companion, but always kind
and gentle. Wc little dreamed that
he was even then nursing poetic
thoughts aud breathing the swee,
harmonies Of nature. Poor boy. How
dld our hearts bleed for him when
long after we learned of his sutferings
and his sorrows.
Where now are the solid men Of
! Athens who gave it character and dig
nifty as they moved among their peo-
pie? Where is Lumpkiu and the
Cobbs, the Hulls and Mortons and
ThomGses? Where the Newtons and
Albion Chase and John w. Burke,
whose marriage l attended? Where
is DR.. Nathan Hoyt and DR.. Reese
and DR.. Crawford Long, the discoverer
Of aEesthesin? Where are all the sweet
| girls who sang III the choirs Of the
churches and did not veil their faces
from us rs we sat III the gallery and
fcasted upon their beauty: 1t is said
that song outlives n sermon, and SO
! those sweet girl singers still live in
memory, though the preachers elo-
| quence was soon forgotten.
And where is old Sam, the janitor,
who rang the college bell and kept our
secrets and brought us 'possum and
'ta,ers and other luxuries by night
after the tutors had gone on their
grand rounds and all was quiet on the
Ocoree? Where is Hansel, the baker,
from whom we purchased ice cream or
cakes for our evening walks, and where
ARE all the pretty girls we used to meet
or passed on the way to Gotham? !
remember that it was here first saw
and heard Toombs and Stephens, Will.
lam G. Dawson and the Doughcriys
and Bishops Pierce and Elliott and
! other eloquent statesmen and divines.
| These men were my ideals-my stand.
: =
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-05-12

done by a man Of kindred race in far
off Sierra Leone. This thrilling in.
cident Of the native uprising is de.
scribed by o correspondent Of the
London Standard.
At Rotofunk, mission station some
fifty-five miles from the coast, four of
the white missionaries had been
literally hacked to pieces by the
natives. It was said, however, thai
Mrs. Kane, the wife OF the superin.
tendent of the mission, had succeeded
in escaping into the bush.
With the hope of rescuing heros
force was dispatched from Freetown,
with orders to push through to Roto.
funk without delay. On arriving al
the Ribbi River, how ever, the force
found that the natives had collected
at Mabang, q town on the opposite
bank, and had withdrawn all canoes
and boats. As the river is over one
hundred and fifty yards broad and six
fathoms deep, q serious obstacle pre-.
sented itself.
The only officer who knew this part
of the country was Lieutenant w. r.
Howell, of the First Glamorgan
Volunteer Artillery, a member of an
old Cornish family, who had raised
force of volunteers at the commence
ment Of the rising. He appealed for
volunteers to swim across the river
and bring back AZ many canoes as
possible, but there was no response,
as not only would the swimmers be
exposed to the full fire of the enemy,
but the river was known to swarm
with alligators.
At length Lieutenant Howell, in
spite of the proteststions of his fellow.
officers, resolved to make the attempt
himself. The enemy, evidently see.
ing what he was about to do,
assembled in force ON the opposite
bank, but were driven back some dis.
tance and kept at bay by the firing OF
the British volunteers over Lieutenant
Howell's head.
When the Lieutenant had just
reached mid stream and was in the
full current, he was seen to swing
round rapidly ou his back; his leg had
being seized by an alligator. It was
only by swinging sharply round that
he succeeded in freeing himself, but
even so his thigh had been torn and
lscerated in shocking manner.
Notwithstanding this injury and the