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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-11
WILMINGTON CONvoCATaON


Correspondence OF The MessengerD
Fayetteville, n. c., April s.
The Wilmington Protestant Episcopal
Convocation has been in session here
for the past two days-present: Right
Rev. Dr.. Watson. Bishop OF the East
tern diocese OF North Carolina; Rev.
n. NJ. George, /. w. Hughes, Tomlins-
Carmichael, Griffith. Skinner, windley,
Barber. In ST. Johns church h open
ing discourse. a beautiful, cultured
mission sermon, was delivered by Rev..
". NJ. George. Of New Bern, and last
evening a large congregation were
pleased and edited by an essay from
Rev. Mr.. Skinner, with an entertain
ing and instructive discussion by the
members of the ~convocation incident
thereto.
Conservation services of st. Philips
chapel in Campbellton, the eastern
suburb of Fayetteville. took place his
morning, Bishop Watson and all the
other clergy being present. Messrs. w.
n. Tflhnghast and l.. l.. Remsbury
represented the vestry OF ST. Johns
church. and Messrs. A. $. Huske and
II. j.. Marsh the patrons OF st. Philips
chapel. A powerful sermon was preach
ed by Rev. n. NJ. George, and after the
conservation the Holy Communion was
administered The services were very
impressive, the NlSTBy anu ldlly iuEIH-
ing outside n marching in roees
sion into the chapel.
Hon. John G.. Shaw today received
the papers Of incorporation OF the new
cotton spinning factory soon to be
erected by Messrs. Tailor, Holt and
Hart, for which a site about a mile
southwest OF the city has been pur-
chased from Mr.. Nj. Mel. Matthews.
manager of the Hotel Lafayette. Mr..
John r. Tolar has always been most
cordially greeted by Fayetteville peo-
pie on his appearance in his former
home. This, his last visit, attended by
such gratifying results. has been es-
pecially pleasing. A self-made man,
having carve out q corner and built
up a fortune in the great metropolis OF
the he comes to share by in
lvestment the fruits OF youth. His con-
fidence in Fayettville's future prosper
ity finds generous response in n Of
his associates, Mr.. w. l.. Holt. who is
already a large investor in property
| here, and Is one OF the ablest and most
successful manufacturers in North
| Carolina. Mr.. Hart is the New York
business partner of Mr.. Tolar.
The killing OF the desperate, Cooper,
or Thursday afternoon, dire necessity
as il was, suggests the a~dvisability OF
all policemen carrying billies. for use
in an instant. lei a weapon. adding
a length of two feet to City Marshal
L = leHSbH VI aim ne dltdAhth,
would hav felled and disabled the
man; and a life, worthless even though
ii may have been. would have been
spared.
The Cook-Haigh marriage, to be SOL
emniZed in st. Johns church next
Wednesday evening, is bringing many
pleasant visitors to the city. Miss
Peck, of Wilmington. arrived yester-
day.
One week later, also in st. Johns
church, Miss Mabel Green. the lovely
daughter Of Hon. w. J. Green, will be
united to Mr.. George Blow Elliott, Of
Wilmington.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-11
We had purposed publishing SO

We had purposed publishing some
tinguished, scholarly Presbyterian min
lister on Christian Science But we
withhold now as we may be asked to
give "the other side" AS this column is
intended more to help the sinner on
to God" than for controversy, we have
concluded not to COZ from the series.
We have bedrock views and convic-
tons as to what is Biblical truth-the
only ~truth-after ten or twenty years
of study in theology, and no new
thing disturbs or interests us. The
basic principles of the eternal Scrip
lures of Inspiration, as we have learn
ed them and believe in them are
enough for our own happiness, peace
of mind and religious prosperity, and
cannot be interested in or moved by
anything not strictly among the funda-
mentals of God. 1t is enough for us to
know that God has said, believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ Inc thou shalt
be saved" Christ is the all and in all,
the Alpha and Omega of all truth. In
Him is life and light and immortality.
B not afraid, only believe" "He is
a rewarder of them that diligently seek
Him." Seek We the Lord while He
may be found, call we upon Him while
He is near"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-11

Crime steadily grows. In the Rich
mond Dispatch OF End inst, page 2, the
first column is headed: Two Negroes
shot" at a dance, by another negro.
In the second column is an article head
ed-"Two negroes use pistols, both
wounded" In the fourth column
is a long article headed-"An old negro
and his daughter killed by the woman's
husband" And that is a daily report
you will find all through the south Of
negro crimes and rowdyism- Although
the negroes are not half as numerous
as whites in the south, there crime
| record is five or ten times greater than
that of the whites. 1t is indeed a great
pity that it is so for it lowers b ne-
| gro and is a menace to the peace of
! communities and the safety Of pro-
perty and life.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-11

Rev. DR.. Burroughs, of the Baptist
church, is an expansionist of the most
advanced kind. He is southern. Rev.
DR.. Hoyt is northern. The Spring
field Republican gives this:
T Rev. DR.. Wayland Hoyt, who
says that every bullet sent, every can
o shot, every flag waved, means
Righteousness" these lines, adapted
from a message of Emperor William i
to his wife, are dedicated:
Five thousand Filipinos sent below-
Praise God from whom all blessings
flow"
1t moves the Boston Pilot, Catholic,
to say:
But the Filipinos must be saved
even if we have to kill them to save
them, and killing them, according to
orthodox theology, We damn them eter-
nally."
1t is pitiful that so many of the
preachers who claim to be disciples OF
the Prince of Peace" should be SO ex-
tremely warlike in their u~tterances
against the Filipinos. They are not
satisfied with the good old way men
toned in "Hudibras,"-
And proved their doctrine orthodox
By apostolic blows and knocks.
They wan shotted cannon and Ions
range repeating rifles that the Filipinos
may be shot to death and in the name OF
blessed religion and pure Christianity
God save the mark,
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-11

There are thousands of Intelligent
educated, kindly disposed people in the
south who prophesy and believe in
racial wars h~enceforth between blacks
and whites as inevitable. They are not
OF the hostile class who hate the negro.
People of the old regime'-children OF
masters who owned slaves. or owners
themselves, who have naught but kind
ness for the black man, are constrained
that endless conflicts will follow We
know Of a lady of rarest intelligence
and highest possible social rank, south
ern born and loving the south with her
whole heart, who is SO persuaded OF
the coming ace war she lives in the
north and urges her dearest friends to
do likewise. The following taken from
the Edgefield Is. CO. Chronicle ex-
presses the anticipations and convic-
tons of tens of thousands Of whites
in The south
Looking over the last eighteen
months in the south and west, we are
at lasS firmly convinced that the white
men and the negro, under present cir
cumstances, cannot live together. The
negro will nave to go, and the sooner
he goes the better for him. AT the end
of fifty years more, if he oes not go,
there will be none of him left to go
We say this for his interest, and
with the kindest possible feeling. And
we would say further, God help us
southern white people when he is zone
without we quickly learn to help our
selves more han we have done within
the last thirty years."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-11
LITERARY HOTCH.POTCH

There have beer made innumerable
attempts to describe or define poetry
what it is. We have seen no better Or
simpler description than that given in
"Poet-Lore"-"Poetry is the expression
of the emotions and ideas of the soul,
derived and expressed through the i'm
a%gination, and in rhythmic language"
We can conceive of no other kind. We
believe imagination Is absolutely es-
sentia1 ITO true poetry, and that ryth-
mical language is a positive essential.
Some authors in the north are held in
high esteem who are deficient, both in
technique and melody and rythm. The
real poet is an interpreter as well as
seer. A poet without form or rythm
or tor or color or music in number
is lame and impotent. He may be
imaginative, bue he must have diction,
language, expression to body forth fit
tingly and ~felicitously the high and
engaging thoughts. The true artist
is never content until he has distilled
the fading forms of perishable and
transitory lovliness into enduring
wealth." By the marvellous transmit
ting power of the alembic of his gent
us he must take the rude ore of con.
ception and thought and fashion i
into forms Of glorious beauty ant
magic charm. "Folk-Lore'' says that
''the musical and pictorial elements OF
Poe and Rossetti can never lose theil
charm"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-11

The Bible teaches certain fundamen-
tails that are imperative, immovable,
eternal. Let US briefly summarize them;
L. Christ is equal with God. 2. The
names given Him in the Old and New
Testaments. 3. Mans promised Saviour.
4. Redemption by his blood only. 5. His
resurrection from the dead. 6. His as
cension and eternal Priesthood. Z. Our
Mediator. s. Our Advocate. 9. Our In
tercessor, 10. His secon coming. II.
His love to His own and to sinners.
IL. A present Saviour. Is. The only
Saviour. IA. What Jesus Christ is able
to do. All these are most distinctly,
most impressively set forth in the
Bible, Gods revealed will and truth
to man lost and ruined by sin. Study
the Book. What does God say of it? 1t
is Divinely inspired. "All Scripture is
given by inspiration of God. 1t is pure.
Every word of God is pure" 1t shall
never fail. THE word of the Lord en-
dureth forever" 1t sanctiies believers.
'Sanctify them through thy truth: thy
Word is truth" Is has great keeping
power. But the Lord is faithful, who
shall stablish you, and keep you from
evil. 1t is sweet and nourishing and
able to build up.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-11

1t is very certain, as We have long
felt assured, hat Shakespeare a a
fair knowledge OF Latin. The very
grammar he used in the grammar
schools at Stratford is known-Lily's.
That we saw first, given in a very
interesting essay in n Of the British
Quarterlies several years ago. Mr..
John Phin, of New Jersey, writing a
long article in The New York Saturday
Review on Shakespeare, says:
Speaking of the early education Of
Shakespeare and his brothers, Lee
says: They were entitled to free tut
ton at the Grammar School at STRAIT
ford. The instruction he
(William) received was mainly conf1n-
ed to the Latin language and literature.
From the Latin accidence, boys of the
period, ct schools of the type OF that
at Stratford, were led, through CONVEX
sation books like the 'Sententiae Pue-
rifles and Lily's Grammar, to the Pc
rusal Of such authors at Seneca,
| Terence, Cicero, Virgil, Piautus, Ovid,
and Horace Nothing is said about
| ~'schoolboys of thirteen AT the same
! time it was probably true that many
| boys of thirteen Shakespeare includ-
ed) could read such authors. Latin
was almost all that they were taught,
and I have known boys of thirteen who
could read Virgil and Cicero"
Students Of Shakespeare know how
often he quotes Latin. He had lei a
prodigious mind that to learn Latin
would have been an easy task. Ben
Jonson, the friend and admirer Of the
great poet, was a good Latinist and
wrote an English Grammar in Latin.
When Jonson died a literary man NAM
ed Owen Feltham contributed some
verses and in it this occurs:
Though there be many that about heI
(the stage's) brow,
Like sparkling stones, might a quick
lustre throw;
Yet Shakespeare, Beaumont, JOnSOn
these three shall
Make up the gem in the point vertical
Shakespeare is named first in order
Of genius. Jonson wrote famous AND
we'll known ines on Shakespeare. These
were his contemporaries. 1t is a pity
that there was ever started the Shakes
peare-Bacon folly-a pitiable midsum
mer's madness. The woman that frs
gave it currency died insane, as dir
two others of the earlier and more con
spicuous advocates of the authorship
of the great dramas being Lord Veru
lam, (Francis Bacon), whose know
verse was poorer every way than tn
common that finds it's way now int,
ordinary newspapers.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-11

When Napolean was confined at ST.
he was in declining health. In
deed, before his defeat at Waterloo his
greatly overtaxed body showed signs
of decay. If he had been we'll at Water
loo another result might have followed
the battle than that which sent him
'to the lone barren isle" Lady NAL
CONS husband saw much of the great
est military genius of 1000 years, and
her Diary of ST. Helena has been
published recently. She has given in
teresting impressions of the captive
genius Of war. We copy:
His hair of a brown-black, thin on
the forehead, cropped, but not thin in
the neck, and rather a dirty look; light
blue or gray eyes: a capacious fore
head; high nose; short upper lip; good
white, even teeth, but small Che rarely
showed them); round chin; the lower
part of his face very full; pale COM
pleXion; particularly short neck. 9th
erwise his figure appeared well pro-
portioned, but had become too fat; a
thick, short hand, with taper fingers
and beautiful nails, and a well-shaped
leg and foot. She was struck
with the kindness of his expression
SO contrary to the ~fierceness she had
expected. She saw no trace of greal
ability; his c~ountenance seemed rather
to indicate goodness. At second inter.
view she remarked that IL would change
with his humor."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-11
Au Orphans scre

We want to make a suggestion to
our farmer friends and readers. Merely
a suggestion and we leave you to act
according to your own sense of duty.
1t is just this: That you select this
year a rich spot on your farm, plant it
in what you think can be raised most
profitably, tend it carefully and con
scientiously and send the proceeds or
the produce to aid in the support of the
two hundred and fifteen orphan boys
and girls in the Oxford Orphan Asy-
lum, or the children in some other or
phanage in North Carolina. This is
done in other states and | know the
farmers in our own state are as char
itably inclined as any that the sun
shines upon.
We are all wholly dependent upon
our Heavenly Father for food, for rad
ment and for all the blessings of life
for life itself. From Him must come
the sunshine, the rain, the fruitful sea-
son, the abundant harvest. 1t is from
His bounty that all must be fed.
You could not bestow your loving
labor where it would yield a greater
harvest Of redeemed lives, than by fol-
lowing our suggestion. If you could
get your SOL interested in this or
phans' acre." it would teach him a val
liable lesson of uns%elfishness, Of gener-
osity and of service to others. In the
sweat of your brow you toll hard for
your own loved ones. May you always
be given the strength and the opportu-
nifty to provide for them. But v
overlook these little, unfortunate chill
dren, bereft Of father, of home, of sup
port, dependent pom our charity.
Feeding an orphan child will never
take bread from the mouths of your
family. We have Gods word for that:
David declares after a lnog life of
varied experience and close observa-
ton: Il have been young and now
old; yet | have not seen the righteous
forsaken o his seed begging bread.
He is ever merciful and lendeth and his
seed is blessed"
Solomon says: There is that scat
tereth and yet i~ncreaseth; there is that
withholdeth more than is meet. but il
tendeth TO poverty"
Read in Ecclesiastes: Cast thy
bread upon the waters, for thou shalt
find it after many days"
Again We have the promise: Bless.
ed is he that considereth the Door: the
Lord will deliver him in time of trou-
BILE"
Farmer friend, sit down and think
over b prime importance of this work
for the destitute, orphan children O,
u state-a state highly favored of Coz
in fertile soil and bountifui harvest
Ii you give the matter serious consid-
Grafton, | believe you will plant this
year a little garden or orphans acre
and that, next year, liz you are permit.
ted 70 I've, you will plant another. thai
you VIII continue b practice from yea,
Z year and thus materially aid this
cause in North Carolina and he blessed
in giving
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-11

amples taken from the London Acad-
emy's inquiries when Kipling was SO
i'll, as to what people thought OF him.:
"a bus driver: Arstin' you a ques-
tin, sir. 90 is this Mr.. Kipling?
A iobacconist: Yes, sir, he's one OF
the greatest All the same, / can't say
that I ever heard OF MI. Kipling till he
had pneumonia
A fruiterer: Mr.. Kipling, Aye, aye;
it's nice weather for sick folks He's
an American, isn't he, sir?
A cabman: Like to see the Star?
said as / lighted. 'Kipling's all right
The cabman's face glowed with inter-
est as he leaned down for the crumpled
paper. I don't seem 10 know the
party he said"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-11

There is a new claim of the discov-
cry of America. 1t is positively GER
ain that Columbus did not discover it.
The Cabots came later. The new claim
ants are the brothers Nicolo and An
tonic Zeno. Fred w. Lucas has pub
lished a royal octave, 252 pages, Is
facsimile maps, entitled The Annals
of the Voyages of the Brothers Nicolo
and Antonio Zeno in the North Atlantic
About the End of the Fourteenth Gen.
fury, and the Claim Founded Thereon
to a Venetian Discovery of America;
A Criticism n Indictment" How
much there is in this story, this claim
of discovery, we know not, but it is
no doubt worth considering. The critic
reviewed it at length. His article
would fill four or five columns of The
Messenger. He praises the work OF
Mr.. Lucas, of the family of the Zeno
brothers, he says:
1.-THE family of the Zeni, from the
fourteenth to the sixteenth century, oc-
cupied a position of considerable IN
political life of the Venetian republic.
Members of the family reached the
highest official positions in the state.
became merchant princes, n allied
themselves with foreign families OF
royal rank. 1t was a period during
which Venice had a conspicuous part
in the commercial annals of the civlllZ-
"a world. Each year between 1917 and
1888. it is recorded that a fleet of We
netian vessels, under the authorization
and protection Of the state, sailed to
FLANDERS and England with glass and
p wines, and silk, which were ex-
changed for wood, tin. hides and
L~nocIoIotb In 1856 a small
volume was published in Venice pur-
norting to contain an account OF the
Persian mission of CATERING Zeno, and
also of the adventures of two other
members of the family, the brothers
Antonio and Nicolo (there were three
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-11

1t is the man who taketh off the ar
NOR who may safely rejoice and not
the man who puts it On. Old but true.
Bill Astor is worth 500, 900, 900, all of
which is in New York city. He lives
in London 20 avoid association with the
common American stock and wants to
avoid the present taxes he has to pay
in New York while having the benefits
of high rents. 1t is just such "blarsted"
nabobs who make anarchists and pro-
mote destructive socialism.
In England they make every body
amenable to law, even royalty and no.
bility. Years 6 Queen Victoria was
fined $1.S7 for failure to register the
birth of one of her sons, the Duke of
Edinburgh.
The men in Chicago occupy the street
car seats and the women stand. This
leads to a movement on the part of
the latter called "Woman's Municipal
Ownership League" The object is to
have the city to own so they can be
seated. They distribute cards in the
cars now with his:
"Gentlemen, stand up and give the
women seats! You can vote for NUM-
cipal ownership and stop this thing;
they
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-11

Talk about fame, who has it? You
would suppose Kipling would be known
to every nan and woman in England.
But in truth not half of London ever
heard of him. There are people in
North Carolina who never heard Of
Zeb Vance or Bill Holden. There are
people all around the globe who are
stepped in ignorance. Some live in a
half mile of Faneuil Hall, Boston. As
illustrative of the ignorance in London
of the most talked of man Of letters In
the world now, we give some four ex-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-11

Kipling is described as having come
ing nearly recovered from a very Sc
we're and dangerous illness. This moves
Mr.. John r. Morris to strike his harm
and a song fills the air. The last five
lines run thus:
Though keen-eyed poet, back from
door,
/ dare you, Rudyard, tell me more
Than blind wee child with sightless
look
Listening at door of Gods own Book.
Since not till shrouding time We'll see
The Master Of Eternity
It appears in The Charlotte Observer
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Christ's saying. we learn from John
1918, caused "a division" among the
Jews who heard them. The new doc
trine aroused the anger and prejudices
of many. Some said "he hath a devil.
and is mad; why hear We him?" Christ
to this day is hated, reviled, despised,
and yet aside from His divinity He
was the wisest, noblest, most lovable
man who ever walked this earth of
urs If people will wrangle and divide
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-11

Guilford county has furnished three
governors for North Carolina. Alexan-
der Martin was elected governor in
1852 and again in 1879. John Motley
Morehead was elected governor in 1910
and again in 1912. Hon. A. NJ. Scales
was elected governor in 1SS4.-Greens-
boro Record.
Was Governor Morehead a native Of
Guilford ?Where was Governor Scales
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-11
Ned Springs Notes
Correspondence Of The Messenger.)
Red Springs, ~, c.. April Z

Correspondence of The Messenger.)
Red Springs, n. c., April Z.
Maxton's Merry Ministries performed
here last night Eleven young men and
four young ladies came from our sister
town..
About t%hirty-fve telephones have
been u in here, n the exchange
will soon be in operation, and we can
talk with towns from Wilmington to
Rockingham and to Spout Springs.
A number OF nice residences are be-
Ing built. Progress is our w~atchword.
Kinston Free Press. At Newbern a
man with smallpox was allowed TO go
at large.-The doctors estimate that
about 5000 people have been vaccinated
in this county. Most of those vaccinat-
ed live in Kinston.-Two cases OF
smallpox developed among the sus-
poets at the house of detention and
were removed to the pest house this
morning This makes o total OF four
teen cases Of smallpox in the pest
nouse@there is none at all in Kinston.
charlotte Observer: DIR. G. G.. Nc
yesterday received a letter
from w. H. Parshali, of rs Hudson
avenue, Albany, N. Y, making inquiry
for A. G.. Parshall, who was operated
On v years ago at the county home
by him and DR.. Wilder. The operation
was successful, and Mr.. Parshall left
after the operation for the coast to
work his a north. DR.. McManaway
has moi heard from him since. He had
passed out Of his recollection until the
letter of yesterday, which recalled him.
w. II. Parshall, who makes inquiry al
to his whereabouts, is his son. His
father, he states, Is ap ainter by trade.
ell would be glad OF any information
concerning him.
Representative Baird, OF Louisiana.
is still in a critical condition and shows
no material change.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-11

Faint heart, be brave, and Danish thy
despair;
Look to the past, find vindication there.
Our little lives make Gods rewards
seem late,
But recompensed are they who work
and wait.
-Burritt Hamilton, in Christian Reg
lister.