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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1899-08-09
A VISIT TO HILLSIDE CEMETERY.

from my hsafdlh& place, only once
an" 'hen uhdef antaNenhle clrcum-
stances. have found II possible to re
peal the NISlt.
All OF TINS year hnve been longing
10 g" AGAIN. To-day fortune taNors
me IN inns township Is regulation
thal II" teacher shall continue SEES
SION ol Seheol When the temperature
OF the S'ho@Iroom IL below 90 degrees
on above -. As tho IN league with
the ehlIdren. the mercury to-day, rs
the two preceding DAYS, passes the
critical POINT before noon, aud school
Is ont ut noon. dispatch II little
mss Wl'A note to ask young lady
acquaintance who drives whether she
can take me To the cemetery tins
afternoon. Soon the messenger re
turns win Tue word TINT Miss W. VIII
eau Tor me Mt . o clock. hasten 10
h'lSn my WORK III the sehoolhonSe,
lroNl"" HiNS'i Win nehelI aud paper
an'l III QUO We are oit.
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= -. '''' ''1'''7 -
surely put II PieaSatt efee@e Is hl"W 70
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III '""' "t.et'ieR. hence We decide
W ;" pN 'ne '9l'ott mn ro"u, ~ IN
hillv. but shady. " SAYS my companion.
ia a Uuntnydonian 4 sncn,s nnt vor,.
m. ,..,
"i''N' ""' ~ ~ st"aN' oi'eh polucIe''
ON one side hN woods and grass grown.
We mcander slowly along, finding
nu,l, g., o,l,,i,, IL. a., ,,,,. ,.ntil s,,I
c'hiN We come ent Into an avenue
winch shows slgns OF much travel.
Trees still border our way. but NIL nj
.ono, v.o n5t,., tI,at tI,,s, - am. ,.;,,1,.
~ '.''''' ''','' ''''a''# - '"' = 1T
are NOT JuSt aaeh as We nave heeh
seeing. Wcnote honey lecusts. pines,
nrbor vitae. White hirches mud some
,,,I,;,L, l,., ut, f.,; ri.
w, ;" 49, 1'''s :" ~ 80 "'"'
Ihey are syhmetrIc and thrifty, SO
denscly growing TINT they shut out
entirely from onr view What IL bevond
,I,on, w, 1T, Co. -. a. A.,
'"''i' 'e''e, t''' ~" 'i"' INC
fnstlc renee Is iestooaed most beau-
tifully with woodhine, and here, just
whore thc trees orn tallest vc find
-. Il. -, m,
""i ''''''s '''i'i.' "i'ae "l'l'ea'S ING j"
lofty summer house, hut, no, 1T TX
only the entrance To hillside Come
tory Tho cenirnl tawer bnnootb
,,h;,,b go, ,.,,..l..,..,= -, u,u..,.l
"h''" i""t 'i"Nel'ia l,ass III 'lIo"Nn
two rustic gates IL hlgher than the
trees on either side and is entirely
hidden bencatb woolbino mud viatoria
-, n.f,,5,z,...:=1s..,.I. -. -,
VINCE va e't"et s',fe - -" or'NoW"S
Tor carriages, and who Will may enter.
There is naught Ia bar the way.
W. biyo tbro,t..b mud no4, with
-
uellsh' upon tue scene helore us
We are nj the foot Of Il bold but grace-
full hill, which seems 10 have boon do
l,,.tLa Divine tr.I,it.,I far tho
-
purpose Wlllell II now serves. bei'iila
Ms circles the line of trees which We
have mentioned. Fnr before us. iust
tho mt If tLa=hiu i. line
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OF WOODS, a&aillsl Nhlell lall h'hTpIe
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1899-08-09

'Iambertville Pufis" are still go
ing up in smoke. Kline sells them,
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1899-08-09

HOODS PILLS cure Liver Ills, Bill
iousness, Indigestion, headache.
Easy to take, easy to operate. 2oc'
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1899-08-09

The girl is the mother of the woman Just as
the boy is the father of the man" The
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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-28

While evolution counts it's votaries
by the tens of millions, in which is in
Guided possibly one-fourth of the
preachers, it is a theory or doctrine in
contravention of the Book of books,
and makes apes, balloons and gorillas
the progenitors of the human race, az
ter getting away from p~rotoclasms. It
is not surprising that atheistic men of
science, who know no creating God, and
blatant skeptics should adopt evolution,
out it is surprising that men of God
who profess to be called of Him to
teach Divine Truths should wander off
after such a strange god in Darwin's
exploded theory. Up-to-date no living
man of science or dead man of science
has found the connecting link between
the monkey and man. Others may
claim such ancestry but we will take
no monkey origin "in ours" 1t is rant
ed that very gifted, eve learned men
have accepted the Darwinian theory,
b u that theory is full of difficulties
and run count to the plain word of
toned upon no such insubstantial and
badly perforated theory. Some reii-
gious paper, we forget which, but rath-
er think it is the Charlotte Presbyte-
rian Standard, has said this, and it is
straight and forceful. 1t says of Chris
tan faith and evolution:
'sThey seem to US utterly Indifferent
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-28

South Carolina, like our own state, is
cursed with a 'penitentiary scandal
A special from Columbia to the Charles
ton News n Courier tells how that
Tillman and Evans and Ellerbe-all
governors-worked farms with convict
labor thai was not paid for, and sold
the product Of the farms to the peni-
tertiary. It also tells of animals be-
longing to various people that were
kept on the state farms at the states
expense, including Jersey cow and
calves, Berkshire pigs and a young
lady's horse, etc. 1t shows how the
directors made estimates of the yield
Of the state farms by pure guess work.
Truly a fine mess and savory. 1t is
astonishing what huge elephants pen
itentiaries are in the south. They need
new management all through.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-28
BREyITIEs.

Sound waves are now photographed
successfully. Mr.. Edison lately stated
that he would soon have ready his in
vention by which pictures can be taken
by telegraph. Science and discovery
do 2
Senator Teller. of Colorado, says the
democratic issue in 1900 will be nnan-
cial and Bryan will be the nominee.
He thinks Bryan did precisely right as
to Belmont. He says 1.-The fellows in
that organization are not democrats.
They are republicans, masquerading
under democratic colors. They opposed
Mr.. Bryanss election in 1896, saying his
election would endanger the nations
welfare n he did perfectly right in
declining to accept the invitation"
And now still another party-the
third named recently-is talked of. La
Dor agitators, social reformers and sill
yer men will meet in New York.
|. Mr.. Bryan will reply to Belmont's
book showing some differences between
the positions he holds and those held
by Thomas jefferson.
1t is now known that Genera Miles
| was strong for retreat of the American:
from Santiago. He put his advice in
writing twice. A Washington CORE.
| spondent of ST. Louis Globe-Democrat
| a republican paper,says that "all of tn,
strange things about the war will
| Spain have not been told. They are be
coming public as the cover Of conf
dence is taken off the official records.
| The last great curse Of people an
nounced is "a salt trust" with $12, 900,
| 600 capital. The Philadelphia Recort
| says:
: This trust is intended to make thing.
especially interesting for the farmers
| IND if the farmers should take tn,
| thing in hand they could make matter
| very interesting for the trust"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-28


The Messenger. long ago now. in no
ticing once ThackerayAs Book OF
Snobs," gave it as it's opinion that this
free country Of ours was as much al
flicted by snobs and snobbery as Eng
land or any other country on the globe
was repeated in a different n
ton. The worship OF wealth, he court
paid to the rich. the low OF so-called
honors, the eager rae for places with
salaries from 500 10 $50, ooo-an these
were so many signs Of the prevalence
OF the genuine article known as "snob-
berry," and place-hunting and o OF
titles and imaginary honors. And be-
hold what court, what subserviency.
what lapdations are offered 10 those
with "a little brief authority" Just
nominate a fellow for some little office
and at once he is introduced in the pa
pers as Hon. Jack Blatherskite." when
he Is not elected. and IL he had been
he could not have been entitled TO the
greatly abused prefix. Yes, this great
1oaAS - fS "a w ~ 1A0s
berry, and much OF it OF the very
greenest kind. Recently his disease,
for such 1t is, and wide spread. has be-
come the theme OF magazine articles.
They recognize hat 's~nobbery" is a
giant now and of great aggressive
ness. His march is onward. There is
| a paper in %Scribner's Magazine for
| March from which we CLEAN a confirma-
tory paragraph or so. The writer says:
THE people are, so to speak, tum-
bling owe each other in their haste
| to adopt old-world social customs, and
| the paragrapher who .ells US that the
wife Of the chief magistrate wears blue
novelty silk waste to the theatre, made
by one Of her familiar friends, makes
a point of assuring us that the dress
maker in question is herself "a leading
society woman Our public press is rife
with society cant and society gossip
and justifies the practice on the plea
that the plain people are absorbed In
the contemplation of the doings and
the dresses of those whom they know
, only by hearSay, ever as an English
woman will run the risk of apoplexy III
order to catch a passing glimpse OF
her sovereign"
We use the word 'snob" in a broader
n han this writer-taking In
those who initiate kingly government:
and subjects in other things than con
Germ fashion, society, etc. Thack'
cray in his inimitable book named
above, defines a "snob" in this wise
"a vulgar person who affects to be
better, richer, or more fashionable
than he really is; a vulgar upstart; on
who apes his superiors." The diction.
airy definition of "snobbishness' !,
this: Vulgar affectation or ostenta.
ton; mean admiration of mean things
Yes, Jimmey, there are "snobs'' and
there are "snobbery'' and "snobber.
ness" Flee such. Be self-respecting and
independent.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-28
WILMINGTON. n. C.
OBsERVANDA.

The complaint in Great Britain as in
The United States is that the minds OF
the youth are being poisoned by debas-
ed literature. 1t is a curse to any land
and any generation. 1t Is a pity for
the sake of the young that 1t Is mo- pos
sible to completely suppress such evil,
malignant stuff. 1t is stated by the
New York Churchman that juvenile
crime is greatly on the increase and
has become alarming to all who OBJ
serve and think. 1t is said that vicious
books are introduced into the homes,
and the heads of families, (mothers
and fathers), either allow it or even
participate in reading them. With such
bad examples before the children how
can corruption be prevented. Many a
home turns out yearly robbers, house
burners, murderers, rapists and
terfeiters. They get the first lessons In
crime from wicked stories they read
and they seek to emulate the vicious,
damning examples. When the foun-
tains of the youthful minds are filled
with poisons it is wholly impossible
that pure streams shall flow from
them. Instead of being taught sound
morality and the lofty principles and
ideals Of the Holy Scriptures their
young minds are fed upon literary gar
bage and poisons. The Churchman says
of the wicked, noxious morning illus
trated ewspapers
There is no conviction of sin, and
consequently no sense Of need Of the
atonement!" exclaims the lecturer.
How can there be, when the heads of
families, who are so careful about the
adulteration of their milk and Of their
bread, no not nave any scruples in al
lowing a9the members Of their house
holds to read the daily papers, adulter-
ated with the poisonous combinations
Of sensual frivolity n open crime?
Adapting the words Of a great modern
writer, whose son is at present the edi-
tor of the London Times, we may say:
The literature of the day prepares the
crime; the criminal commits it,"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-28

The talk about Senator Pritchard be-
ing the republican candidate for gov
ernor In North Carolina next year will
probably terminate in talk. Senator
Pritchard, we take it, has too much
political sagacity, if not too great a
dread of defeat, to undertake such a
job. The Citizen has before pointed
out the desirabifity of acyclone celler
for the junior North Carolina Senator,
and if he persists in keeping above
ground his wreck can be charged to no
one but misunderstanding Citizen.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-28

That able religious northern Presby-
terrain exponent, the Interior, foreseeing
decay and destruction awaiting the
negro race unless a radical change is
wrought in their lives and character
and morality, points to other inferior
races who have persisted or decayed. 1t
gives to it's readers this bit of history:
1.-The Tasmanians persisted to the last
individual. The Hawaiians declined in
little more than half a century from
half a million to forty thousand, and
the survival of that remnant is due to
the missionaries. 1t appears thai the
rise and decline of the Africans in
America may prove to be the monster
tragedy of civilization" The white
man is to save the remnant of which
the Interior writes pathetically, if it is
to be preserved. The moral and phys
ical staminal" will not be maintained
if the old ways are pursued. A dis
tinguished physician Of this city som.
eight years ago said to us-"You have
no idea Of h great inroads being
made upon the negroes by certain dis
eases the outcome of abuses and immor-
alities." We have since seen estimates
Of the growing destruction following
upon the negro race in the south be-
cause Of bad conduct and habits. The
Charlotte Presbyterian Standard says:
Every consideration of humanity and
Christianity demands that the people
of the south arise to their responsible
ties to the negro in the same spirit of
pity n forbearance and h%elpfulness
that characterized the old relation of
master n slave. 1t is not an easy
task nor an agreeable one"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-28

There can be no mistaking public SEN
timent in this country as TO the Samp-
s~on-Schley matter. We believe that in
North Carolina ninety and nine fairly
intelligent white men in the one hun
dred are strong on the side of the splen-
did sailor and fighter Of Maryland.
The Charlotte Observer begins an edi-
torial On the controversy in this wise:
1T is curious how public opinion has
aligned itself on the Sampson-Schley
controversy. The vast majority Of the
press and the vast majority of the peo-
pie are heart and SOU for Schley and
yet the navy department and ninety
nine one-hundredths OF the officers of
the navy are intense sympathizers with
Sampson. Why is this?"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-28

The late James Anthony Froude pos
sessed marked attractions as a writer.
We verify believe he was one of the
masterful writer's of this century, rich
in imposing authors. His style deserves
to rank very high in the bead-roll Of
English writer's. His history, his
sketches, his lectures, all he produced
in fact, possess very genuine charm.
There was nothing dull in him. He had
pictorial power and a vigorous, ami
mated, sustained style. He was great
ly criticised and no doubt justly for
his many inaccuracies Us to historic
details. He was ever accused of hav-
ing no literary conscience; that he
could not see the truth; that he search
ed records and brought out from them
lust what could not be found-that he
misrepresented historic facts n
painted portraits of men and women
according to his own fancy and not in
accordance with known facts and fea-
lures of character. He was not a hap
py man nor perhaps a wise one but a
great master of style, and with COM
manding powers to construct n
illumine the dull and ill-digested rec
ords. Other men might be Dryasdusts
but not so with James Anthony
Froude. We have some times thought
we would write an essay on Iii We
refer to him now because of a bit of
"Reminiscences we met with. A distin-
guished English soldier, Major G.. P.
Colley, who was killed in battle, wrote
of Mr.. Froude, who was his compan-
ion once from the Cape to England, to
a personal friend. 1t was unstudied and
for a private eye, but it has general
interest. He wrote:
II don't know if you are as warm. an
admirer of his writing as l am; tome
there is no English prose equal to some
passages Of his; such, for instance, as
that about the middle of the first chap
ter Of his history-'For indeed a change
was coming upon the world 1t was
rather a sad mind too, some times
grand, sometimes pathetic and tender,
usually cynical, but often relating with
the highest appreciation and with Won
derful beauty of language some gallant
deed of one Of his heroes of the ft-
teenth or sixteenth century. He seem.
ed to have gone through every phase
of thought, and come to the end all is
vanity He himself used to say the
interest of life to a thinking man was
exhausted at thirty or thirty-five. At
ter that there remained nothing but
disappointment of earlier visions and
hopes. Thank goodness, I have not
though quite so fast! Some time
there was something almost fearful in
the gloom and utter disbelief and de-
fance of his mind"
What a sad picture! When a man
however richly endowed and success
full cuts himself off from a belief in
God, n the Redeemer, and turns his
back upon the eternal Christian Veri-
ties, he wanders into the blackness of
Darkness and gloom and despair settle
down upon his MIND and heart even in
this life. Beyond is full of terror or
utter darkness. What a profound faD-
ure after all was Froude. Disappoint-
ed, sorrowful in this life, and as for
the life to come only doubt, dread, un-
belief, despair.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-28
HOME FOLKS

We cannot say that it is a deeriva-
ton because Secretary Long could not
speak at the next commencement of the
University of North Carolina. His re-
cent capers against Rear Admiral
Schley would deprive him of attraction
justice and right. Why he was SELECT
ed out of the 70, 00e.0 900 of Americans is
beyond us.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-28

1t will be recalled that Drs. Briggs
and McGiffert, two eminent teachers,
divines and scholars. withdrew from the
Presbyterian church because of their
heterodox views and united with the
Episcopalians. At the time able secu-
lar and religious papers did not hest
ate to say that such sappers and
miners could not add strength to any
Christian church. Recently they have
been lecturing before Union Theologi-
cal Presbyterian Seminary in New
York. The course had to be aban-
doned on account of lack of hearers.
They did not prove a drawing card"
Their magnetism" vas not equal TO
the task put upon them-to draw TO
the lecture intelligent laymen. The
Central Presbyterian, of Richmond,
states that 1.-The treasurer reported that
put Of four thousand laymen heard
from exactly five were favorable, while
a considerable number criticised the
proposed lecture force. a member OF
the faculty, when seen, said there was
much disappointment"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-28


New York, March 25.-The National
Base Bali League delegates resumed
their session here today. II was nearly
noon before they got down to work.
The session closed at 4 O'clock with
the adoption Of the schedule for the
coming season. The schedule as adopt
ed calls for four trips. The regular sea.
son optens April 18th and closes Oc-
tober 14th. Upon the request OF the
Robinsons, however. a resolution was
adopted allowing the clubs that wish
to open the championship season on
April 14th n close on October 18th,
to do so.
1t took nearly six hours to fix up the
schedule. At the beginning OF the SEES
sion, President Young offered a sched-
ule prepared by himself. Severa OF the
clubs wanted dated dates on this
changed, particularly h eastern clubs.
Chicago and Louisville asked for the
greater number OF changes and they
got all they asked for.
The champion Bostons will open the
season with the newly organized
Brooklyn team. New York opens with
Baltimore: Washington at Philadel-
phia; Pittsburg at Cincinnati; Chicago
at Louisville and Cleveland a. St
Louis.
AS soon as the meeting was over mos,
Of h magnates took hurried Depart
ures for their homes.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-28

In our something haSty study of
John 10 we have seen that Christ is the
door Of the sheep, and the shepherd Of
the sheep, and have a~scertained what
were the fruits Of coming to God
through Christ. Then in verse IL we
were taught that Christ is the Good
Shepherd and that there. is real unity
in true religion. AS the shepherd knows
his flock so the Saviour knows His sheep
and is known of them. but in verse
16 we are told that Christ has "other
sheep and that they are mot of this
fold" These He does not leave help
less to wander away forever and be
destroyed. He says them also, 1 must
bring, and they shall hear my voice;
and there shall be one fold, and one
shepherd" What can the blessed Saw
iour mean? He evidently means the
Gentiles. Turn to Matthews Gospel,
Sth chapter, 18th verse and you read:
"And I say unto you, That many shall
come from the east and from the west.
and shall sit down with Abraham, and
Isaac, Inc Jacob in the Kingdom Of
hCdNCA -lId - lhCy Sloll LIZ Tie
blessings of his reign, represented figur-
atively as a feast-"sitting down." The
Christian religion is broad and compre-
hends much. The Gentiles are the 10Th
er Sheep" and when Paul began his
most marvellous evangelizing journeys
he went to the Gentiles with the ever
lasting Gospel and it's blessed promises
of eternal life and the final home in
glory. Christ is speaking in the para
bic we are considering in anticipation
Of what is to come when the Gentiles
hear of Him and accept Him and are
gathered into the one fold. Old Bur-
kilt says that Christ must bring the
Gentiles into his fold" it being a fed
eral agreement betwixt the Father and
Himself, that both Jew and Gentle
should be one flock, inclosed in one fold,
and presented to His Father as a glo-
rious church" The promises of God are
yea n amen, and are for all peoples,
all nations-the Jews, the Gentiles, the
heather for an Inheritance" If there
is n fold and all are invited to come
into it by the Good Shepherd, why such
distinctions such assumptions, such
alterations? Girdlestone, a worthy, able
church Of England divine and author,
says: Would that all, and especially
preachers of the Gospel, felt how great
ly it would help, if they could agree
amongst each other, towards making
the world believe that Christ had sent
them" Very significant. Christian un-
ity, Christian fellowship, 'the unity Of
the Spirit in the bond Of peace
h a contamination, what a blessing
to the world it would be. "And there
shall be n fold, and one shepherd
The same writer wrote, and quite fifty
years ago-'It is possible for more than
are now to be at one mind. It is posi-
BILE for US all to be better agreed than
we are now as to Christian truth, near
err to one communion, and more Of us
one" Since ne wrote there is less of
seetarian bigotry and bitterness of con-
t%ention, but still the church is greatly
divided, and there is a great need of
the spirit that is in Christ as we'll as
brotherly love, "the fruit of the Spir-
it." All men can not see alike as to
doctrine and church pOlity but they can
agree to hold their views in charity and
love.