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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-28
TIL BOOK

There is much disturbance in some
of the better Methodist conferences
over the Methodist Nashville book scan
dial that is so m~alodorous and offensive.
The Virginia conference in session re-
Gently at Petersburg, passed a resolu-
ton reeffirming the amendment by the
conference. of the conuuct of E. +.
Stahlman ard Barbee and Smith in the
Methodist Book Concern against the
United States government. The reso-
luton provoked much discussion, but
a adopted by III ayes to 70 noas
The Western North Carolina coni-r-
ence is in session. The Winston Sem
tinel has this:
THE Sentinel was advised by one
of the preachers who went to confer
ence that the Methodist Publishing
House ma}bter would no doubt come up
and cause a lively discussion at this
session. He added that if it did he
would offer a resolution, to the effect
that the Southern Methodist Church
sell the publishing house and all other
a contract to have books. Sunday
school supplies, etc, published by
contract. He thinks his would do
men and would save the church a large
sum of money"
Strong condemnation resolutions
were passed in some of the other con-
ferences south Of this state.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-28
THE PLEA OF THE POLYGAMIST,

OF course the Utah polygamist ex-
poets to take his seat. But the ques-
ton is. will he hold it? We think this
not probable. 1t would be ~disgraceful
If he did. For a fellow to take a seat
in the United States congress living
openly with -four women he calls wives,
would be a stencil in the nostrils of de-
cency and an outrage upon all preten-
lions to morality. Suppose the con-
gress was composed of members all
with from two to a half dozen wives,
wherein would they differ from the Mo-
hammedans with their harems? Rob-
erts the very much married man" from
Brigham Young's former dominions, is
persuaded in his own mind, that he
can retain his seat and because there
is no legal or constitutional barriers to
it. He pretends to believe hat the law
ending polygamous marriages was pros
pective and not retrospective-that it
applied to the future and not to the
past. But the polygamist is said to
have taken a new and younger wife to
himself since the enactment of the law,
or, HI calls it a compact between the
state Of Utah and the United States.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-28

He is infatuated. He either regards
the house as composed of men of low
ideas and bad morals. or he believes
hat h house has no right or power
to nou upon the eligibility of
members elect and to say who shall
have seats in that body of the people.
We remember when it expelled a regu-
larly elected member, an Ohio man. for
ever expel Garfield for a similar Of
Tense. 1t is on the part of the house
equally competent TO expel an open big
amist or polygamist who violates the
laws of decency and morality as well as
the laws of the United States. Utah
now being a state and in the union.
So roberts is entirely in error when he
says hat the house mas " yet ex-
PEELED a member for an alleged defect
of moral character" The first article
of the constitution provides that Each
house shall be the judge of the cleo
tons, returns, and qualifications of its
own members" This section clearly
makes the house the supreme and ar
bitrary judge as to the qualifications
Of its members"
We give one of his reasons why he
may not be sent adrift. The Baltimore
Herald, republican, gives this:
Mr.. Roberts is unable to see that
there is anything in the national or
ganic law, or in existing statues, or
in ~precedents, to justify the house in
refusing to admit him as a member,
or that would authorize the house to
reject him after he has been admitted.
To refuse a representative his seat
says he, when he has been legally
elected-no fraud charged in the cleo
ton returns, no contest made by op-
posing candidates for the office, and
it is admitted that the representative
possesses all the qualifications pre-
scribed by the constitution Of the Unit
ed Stataes-is a proceeding utterly
without precedent and altogether so
absurd as to be out of the question"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-28
The Springfield fMass.) Republi,

The Springfield tMass.) Republican
is in no sympathy with the proposed
outrage by republican leaders upon To-
cal self-government, the very founda-
ton principle of a republican form of
government 1t declares them danger
Gus n hurtful, and then places the
responsibility of such proposed assaults
where it properly rests. 1t says:
1T must be said, too, that in a broad
way it is the party of Imperialism that
advocates these domestic measures so
hurtful to democratic institutions at
home. The same party that is loudest
today in denying the capacity of other
peoples to rule themselves is the party
that foisted the state police commission
upon Boston, n that now to
deprive every large city in New York
state OF the control of its own police
force. This is not a mere coincidence,
but a logical conjunction of facts.
Holding subject peoples on the other
side of the earth, and restricting self
government in American cities are of
the same stock as the large standing
army
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-28
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

The Messenger is mailing statement
Of subscriptions, in sealed envelopes,
to all delinquent subscribers. This was
done to let every one know how he
stood and to give every one an oppor-
tunity to remit amonnt in settlement
Of the same.
Many will respond promptly, we have
10 doubt, but some will not, we fear.
We desire to say that the Semi
Weekly Messenger (two papers, s pages
each per week. is we'll wort the price
we charge, s1.00 per year, n to send
it year after veal without receiving
anything for it. is more than we can
afford, or will do. 1t is ito be hoped
that those who receive statement will
promptly remit, as the money is need
ed to further improve the paper.
1t has been the habit of some in
the past to entirely ignore statement
of their subscription account, and we
earnestly s those to remit.
do unto others as you would have
others do unto you"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-28
A NOVEL PLAN PROPOSED FOR
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Professor Samuel f. Venable is super
intendent of the public schools of Bum
combe county. He is a teacher of much
experience, has a good scholastic edu-
cation and vas educated at n of the
Virginia leading institutions Of earn
ing. He is about seventy years of age
and is the youngest and only surviving
son of the late Hon. Abram w. Vena-
BILE, Of Granville county. A commune
cation in the Asheville Citizen says of
him in his new field and of his novel
plan to strengthen and improve the
common school system in his county:
His life has been devoted to educa-
ton and he is in love with that high
and holy calling. At present he is
making an experiment which is not
only Of intense Importance to his own
county, but to the whole state, for if he
succeeds in Buncombe there is no rea-
son why his plan should not work in
every other county in North Carolina.
He proposes to establish a system of
graded schools in his county. He will
do it by combination and c~oncentra-
ton. There are now 12S free schools in
Buncombe. These Professor Venable
hopes and expects to concentrate into
about IS. This will, of course, enable
the county to pay it's teacher better
and, therefore, to secure the best teach
ers. 1t will lengthen the school term
to perhaps twice the present term of
three or four months in every year.
Buncombe is full of hills and noun
ain and some children will, it is pre-
sumed. ave to walk or ride a great
distance to and from school than eve
before. If, then, this plan Of concen-
trating the chool districts here works
out successfully, it certainly will work
rr-1JI -, lor-Io-l 0,,o- - tho -<oko
The plan is, further, to grade the coun-
ty schools. The foul lower grades will
be taught, say, during the summer or
fall months, he younger children, not
being needed at home then, attending.
The o higher grades will be taught
during the winter. the older children,
having made themselves useful in seed
time and harvest, being able to attend
then. This, too, will keep the teachers
from being o~ver-crowded with work at
any one time"
1t is certainly a new plan and if it
works out successfully it will probably
revolutionize the entire popular system
of education in the state. We shall be
gratified il it shall stand the test well,
for something is surely needed to i'm
prove the system prevailing. The Mes
senger has many times essayed to help
IN IQlS very Important WORK Unless
Professor Venable's plan OF some other
on a similar plan prove effective then
the plan often suggested in the Mes
senger, and common with others must
soon or late be adopted. hat is to
raise from $780, 900 to $500, 900 more
money for the common schools, and
thereby lengthen by months the present
insufficient school term, and employ
teachers Of a higher grade Of Qualifica-
ton by paying higher salaries. Success
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-28
T~ransvaal Coat OF Arms and FLAG.

Ones attention is SO much taken up
in studying the peculiarly rough feat
lures of President Kruger in his many
portraits h a one scarcely ever notices
a peculiar little badge which Is attach
ed to the broad silk sash which he
wears as the symbol OF office. This
badge is particularly interesting just
now, as 1t represents. I'm a somewhat
rough-and-ready manner. the Boer ma
tional emblem.
1t consists of a round shield. the
chief of which is quarterly. The first
quarter is red, and Is charged with n
lion. peacefully squatting. The second
contains the Boer. in characteristic cos
tune and armed with a gun, on a blue
groun The remainder of the field liz
green, n contains one of those clum-
wagons with which the
Boers trave the country IND form the
laagers. The fess point Is covered with
a small escutcheon bearing an anchor.
the symbol of hope. A spread eagle.
something after the style OF the Ameri-
can one, but less fierce looking. perches
on the top OF the shield, no doubt sug-
costing freedom. The national flag ia
draped on each side. taking the place
OF supporters. II will be seen that
what does duty for a coat-of-arms is
very typical Of he Beers and the coun-
try.
The national flag Is very little known.
IL Is not even familiar to those artists
who are responsible for many of the
var maps now appearing. The stand
ard under which the Beers are now
nghting In exactly hat of Holland
bars red, white and blue-with the ex-
ception Of an addition OF an upright
green bar where the flag IL Joined 10
the STAN. The flag Of the Orange Free
state also betrays It's Dutch origin, for
In the corner. where the union lack
CURE In the English ensign, appears
the Hollander's tricolor on a field OF
white and orange bars. This flag is
unique. for IL Is a to be the only one
IN the world In which orange appears
as a color.-Chicago Record.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-28

Uncle Sam will soon nave a big navy
not so great as hat of it's new ally.
Great Britain, but it will be larger af-
ter awhile. The plans now are that
three large armored cruisers of about
13, 800 tons displacement, three protect
ed cruisers of 5000 tons, six gunboats
of /, 900 tons and six light draught YES
sells Of about 500 tons. The three ships
of largest size will be practically equal
in Offensive power to any battleships
now af1oat. Probably while the next
congress is enacting a law to create a
standing army Of 100, 900, men it will
also take steps to build a dozen addi-
tional cruisers and so on. The empire
must start business with an army Of
respectable size and a corresponding
navy. After a little while 200. 900 or
$50, 900 men will be needed, and John
Bull will teIT Uncle Sam that he must
have a navy ext in power to his own.
What a time this country is destined to
have. The taxes will be mountain high
and the poorer classes will groan and
sweat under a heavy load.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-28
SENATOR MORGAN'S CANVASS.

The New York World had a very
severe attack or Senator John Morgan
of Alabama. Among other things it
ridiculed his ability and laughed at
him as the very dullest of the dull
speakers in the senate. We never saw
him. If he is a dull speaker so was the
greatest statesman who ever sat in the
British Parliament regarded as dull,
as a dinner bell" members leav-
ing so SOC as the illustrious Edmund
Burke arose to speak. And yet his
speeches are the chief glories Of Great
Britain and unequalled by any speeches
in modern times. We are no admirer
of Senator Morgan's course, but We
can not refuse to say hat he has no
superior, if any equal, in the senate,
and there has not been an ADLER man
in hat body in a decade and. perhaps
longer. We never rea a speech by an
American ADLER than his speech in 1896,
at Nashville, we believe it a on the
currency. If Webster or Calhoun ever
delivered a speech of more distinguish
ed ability we are ~unacquainted with it.
We say this deliberately while eco
nizing the great ability and the mas
sive %eloquence of Webster, and the
splendid craftsmanship and great log
ical acuteness and vigor of Calhoun.
Morgan'S views are not democratic
views, we believe, as to the killing Fill
pinos and expansion, and as TO govern
ment building of great ship canals in
other countries. We are reminded just
now of Senator Morgan by his present
campaign with Governor Johnston for
the United States senate. He is some
seventy-five years old, and is ready to
fight a duel now. In a discussion at
Athens, Ala, on 22nd, Governor John
ston read an alleged interview that
made the senator say that Bryan's
leadership was not necessary to the
success of the party, and that another
leader might be found to lead the party
to victory" This riled the old game
cock and he told the governor that he
misrepresented him and knew ii. for he
had before corrected the statement.
He crossed over and shaking his finger
at the governor told him he would hold
him personally responsible If he repeat
ed the offence. Morgan is a confed-
crate veteran
Here is what the World said OF him.
after calling him "Aeolus":
Mr.. Morgan's speeches are like the
bones in the valley in Ezektel's vision
exceedingly many and exceeding dry
He holds the senate record for length or
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-28

While the Messenger has referred
several times to the great calamity. so
sad and f~ateful. that has overtaken the
State Normal and Industrial school at
Greensboro. 1t has not felt inclined to
write OF il at length. The Greensboro
Telegram says it was unavoidable.
Of thai we are not informed. Certain
ly there should be a careful, intelligent
inspection and inquisition, and IL there
is guilt the guilty ones should be dealt
with. The trustees will meet on next
Monday when a patient scrutiny will
he had we suppose. Await results.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-28

Ohio Wilson still lives and he Is the
same slick Ohio. He has a fresh
scheme to get back in his old place on
the railroad commission. He resigned
to the legislature when ne should have
resigned TO the governor. That mistake
OF his he thinks sufficient to place him
on the board with a good salary. His
conscience is elastic anu his brain
cunning. He is so glad his resignation
is invalid" But is IL? Is the governor
"a bigger man thar all the legislature?
Ohio is like that Shiny campaign snake,
who wired In and wired out
And he left them still in doubt"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-28

In the letter to the Ephesians the
Apostle blesses God for the election
of His people, His faithful, consecrat-
ed, ~persevering followers. Beginning
in the first chapter in the fourth and
fifth verses he sets forth what is un-
derstood to be the Pauline doctrine OF
election and pre~destination. AS it Is
controverted ground we shall not en-
ter upon a discussion Of it in its pole
mical attitude. We shall give no opinion
Of u own here as to the merits OF
the Calvinian and Arminian dispu-
tation. We can see no reason why
Christians Of all faiths may not accept
the apostles statement, and take unto
themselves the great things st. Paul
affirms Of the Ephesian saints. In the
first verse, commented upon two weeks
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-28

Nasal Catarrh quickly yields to
treatment by Ely's Cream Balm, which
is ~agrecably aromatic. 1t is received
through the nostrils, ~cleanses and heals
the whole surface over which it diff
fuses itself. A remedy for Nasal Ca
tarrh which is drying or exciting to the
diseased membrane should not be used.
Cream Balm is recognized as a specific.
Price so cents at druggists or by NAH.
A cold in the head Immediately disap-
pears when Cream Balm is used. Ely
Brothers, Sc Warren Street, New York.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-28

Darlington. s. c., November 24.-Ed
Lucky and Tom Mitchell were hanged
today for assault on Jo~enhina
Lanerty. a young white woman. This
was the first instance Of legal execution
In this state for criminal assault
Austin. Texas. November N.-Iames
Davidson was hanged today for the
murder Of George w. Engburg. n mer-
chant. and his wife. at Manor, Texas.
Iass June Davidson confessed on the
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-28

The finding of Il feet of rotten terra
Gotta pipe under the kitchen, and a pipe
that conveyed waste away that was in
ruins, explains perhaps the cause of the
terrible epidemic at the Greensboro
school.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-28

So Captain Bill Days imperfect re-
port, (only a part) will not stand crit
icism. According to Captain Bill but
49, 900 have been received in appropri-
ations, when in fact s55,414 ave been
drawn as appropriations. Captain Bill
should study arithmetic or get a skill
ed accountant who can practice addi-
ton. That .~penitentiary affair is awful
and the pity is it keeps on sinking.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-28

speech and smaliness of audience. 1t
is generally conceded that to his efforts,
combined perhaps with Nevada Stew
arts. is due the senate chambers proud
title of Cave of the Winds.
IL the people shall select Governor
Johnston they will have made a choice
that more completely represents pres
ent opinion We think In the south gen
orally.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-28

The Charlotte News timely says that
1.-The supreme court" of North Carolina"
lis safely republican" Jess so!" The
republicans have the members and the
democrats have the brains. One pro-
duces grub, and the other produces
thought.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-28

Henry Lawson Wyatt was born in
Richmond, Va, and he was not the first
confederate soldier killed in battle but
it was another Virginian. It is a mis-
lake to say, and we think al error, TO
take a Virginian for a North Carolina
ablet
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-28
RELIGIOUS EDITORIALS FOR
SUNDAY.

For as the Father hath life in himself,
so hath he given to the Son to have life
in himself.-JOhn 5 26.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-28

Monday evening at Zeb. In Rowan
county, Henry Miller. IL years old. was
snot ana killed by his elder brother,
reed, The old story-didn't know II
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-09-06

An interesting feature OF this morn
ing's Intelligencer is a letter received
by senator-elect N. B. Scott from
lieutenant L. s. Van Duzer, Of the
United States war ship Charleston, now
located in Philippine waters. We invite
every reader of the Intelligencer to read
the letter, for 1t was written in July,
and describes the situation in most
graphic manner. Our citizens remem-
Der Lieutenant Van Duzer as having
been military Instructor at Linsly In
sttute. There are important features
which the so-called anti-expanslonists
should read and think about. He de-
clares that the war is not SO much
against America as against Christian
civilization, and an oath is taken to
XIII every person who is not Moham-
medau. The lieutenant declares that
not ter per cent OF the Inhabitants are
in sympathy with the Instruction.
AN Important part Of the letter is
that, IL the people at home viii stop
their anu-expansion talk there Will be
less bloodshed. Al the talk and articles
written are translated and distributed
among the Flllpinos. Then comes this
s.saihcaai sentence. which we partIcu-
larly commend to our friend. the Reg
lister, aud other papers of the same
Ill: Every eloquent anti-expansion
speech. or editorial means SO many
more dead American soldiers and sail
orr" .,
The lieutenant further says the FLIP
Iiios are Incapable OF self government,
nor that viii they be for a century. The
Arst tning. ne says. is ITO get possession
ana establish law and order. and then
we can talk about giving them up"
Taken altogether, the Information con-
tanned in the letter is timely and valua-
-
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-09-06
BRYAN an .ImperInIIst.,

Aside from his proposition to insist
upon the re-afirmatlon OF the Chicago
platform. Bryan is furnishing some
amusement by suggestions as to pol
fey for the annthtIation of trusts. The
trouble is. however. that in doing so,
his plan would run up against the pro-
posed 'anti-imperlailst" plank. Bryan
has been talking on the trust matter re-
Gently in a way that demonstrates his
blindness to what the results OF his the
cries would be.
A case in point is found in an asser-
ton that he made before the Demo-
cratic state convention at Omaha, Neb.,
his own state. The Omaha Bee quotes
him as paying his respects to the trusts
and declaring that when a law is passed
that Will prevent corporation from
doing business outside OF the state in
which 1t is organized without license
from the federal government, the trusts
can be effectively regulated. The
World Herald also reports him as say
ing that the trusts could be destroyed
when the federal Congress would de-
cree that no corporation should do bus
mess outside the state where 1t was
organized, except by securing license
from the national government"
Here is where Mr. Bryan's views con-
filct with his antl-imperlalist prIncI-
pies. The New York Sun lnterrogates
Mr.. Bryan thus: What kind of a gov
eminent would 1t be under which no
concern could do business outside the
state where It's chief Office was with
out securing the permission Of some
body at the seat of federal power? 1t
would be the greatest scheme of i'm
periallsm. the most absolute scheme of
central power that the world has ever
known"
The Sun might have added that 1t
would be the worst and most destruc-
tive blow at Industrial enterprises that
could possibly be devised. 1t would be
worse than all the Chicago fallacIes
combined.