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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-17

supel fiuous and false Statements as to
SIMPSONS victory at Santiago. The
crowd ~fnew IL was false and foul and
cried out Justify for Schiey's name 10
be substituted. A more depraved and
meaner administration could not be
gathered.
rs East as that Sciw2r captured
towns in the Philippines they were re-
captured. He killed % punish. Eoubt-
less there are very many Filipinos who
would be glad to hear the last notes
OF a dy ing Schwan c.ea IL not Of the
sweetest
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-17

Correspondence of The Messengcr.)
Wilson, ~. C.. October ~

correspondence Of The Messenger.)
Wilson, ". G., October l3.
John j.. Jefferson, who on August 29th
shot from ambush Calvin Barnes. a
prominent citizen OF Wilson. was
brought here Thursday morning from
raleigh, where he has been confined
Shortly after the crime Jefferson. wa.
carried to Raleigh as a precautionary
measure, 1t being deemed unwise NV tho
authorities to have him confined here.
Jefferson's trial, which comes off next
week, promises to be an interesting
one. Inc best legal talent of Wilson
ana Goadsboro will argue the ease.
The history of Wilson county sboua
but one hanging. There have been sew.
eIal ts1als Tor murder, but never an
other verdict.
Public sentiment condemns Jeffersou
in h severest terms.
Dur.ng Jenerson's stay in Raleigh he
confessed his crime, but when seen I'm
tne 1ail here today denied the confes-
SION. he claims to have NO knowIedpa
whatever Of ever having talked with a
newspaper representative about the
khiing. When asked about his trial
ne would say very little. He express-
cd ignorance as to the name OF his
counsel. Va nis
"A letter. dated San Francisco ,oc-
toper 5th, was received yesterday from
w. ). Churchwell. He left Wilson
aoout a month ago for Manila as .
musician. The ocean voyage win soon
from San Francisco.
-. Gold, Jr., SON OF Elder p n
uolo, mas been appointed superintend-
81 Oh bradstreet's new branch Office
P-nsDoro. Mr.. Gold has been with
5radstreets agency in Richmond For
the past two years. His rrsands toI
Oh his promotion gladly.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-17

The Charlotte Presbyterian Standard
weekly paper that it richly deserves
the patronage of not only every mem
Der of that church in North Carolina,
but of all adherents to the Presbyterian
faith and church government . It
merits a generous support all over the
south among its people. It is a hand
some weekly Of twenty pages.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-17

A brother in black" Parson Christ
mas by name, at Reidsville was an
nounced to lecture. and it was stated
that its length would be two and a
half hours. He either has a good opin-
Ion of his own ability to hold and to
interest, or he believes in the long
suffering n patience of his hearers.
Whites were invited He has talents
it is said.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-17

1t has beer so long since North Car
DINA has sent a rich man to the SEN
ate that Colonel Julian s. Carr, IL elect
ed, will be a towering example of a
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-17
WILMINGTON. n. T..
SDAY OCT. II, 1899.
RELIGIOUS EDITORIAL FOR SUN
DAY.

search me, God, and know my
heart; try me, and know my
ard see if there be any wicked way III
me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
palm 124-23. "a.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-17

Truth. the Roman Catholic organ at
Raleigh, is out for September. Price
"a cents a year-and cheap. IL has
many distinguished contributors.
Southern Pictures and Peucillings Is
"a little monthly published at Asheviile
at 81 a year or 10 cents a umb n.
HI. McQuilkin manager.
Current Literature is the best eclectic
monthly in our country. The Messen-
ger has been praising II for a decade.
IL is unlike all other magazines and
is well adapted TO the homes where
no other monthly enters. 1t gives a
great deal OF reading. Price So n year
or % cents a number. Published in
the Bryant Building. SIS Liberty street,
New York city.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-17

Football education is pushed now
with the genuine spirit of revival in
North Carolina. To the victors belong
the spoils.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-17

rake Laxative Bremo Ouinine Tablets
AL druggists refund the money r. n
.als 10 cure. T. w. Groves signature
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-17

Several times we have referred to the
great over-production now in books.
Last week we examined hurriedly a
huge list of new books by American
publishers for the Fall season, and it
"a so long that it would take a rapid
reader a quarter of a century at least
to go through them. This extreme pro-
ductiveness and increasing accumula-
alton of books makes the necessity
for careful selection the greater. We
| are persuaded more and more that
Thomas Carlyle's rule not to read a
book until two a OLD is wise and
even a necessity. We have been forced
to adopt practically the one yea rule,
which Emerson, we hin it was, sug-
| gested. There are ten times more
works CT fiction produced than is either
necessary or healthful. There are more
than 20, 900 novelists now worrying and
! wearying the republic of letters and
the millions of outsiders. To remember
the names of writer's is impossible. To
keep the run of their productions that
TEEN from the swiftly moving press
would prove utterly improbable and
a bore beyond endurance. Our advice
to all people with intelligence to under
stand a good story and to appreciate
true art, is to read the standard books
of all kinds, and eschew recent novels.
You might read all the novels of the
last decade and remain an incorrigible
ignoramus. We are in full sympathy
with a Philadelphia, Mr.. Benjamin
De Casseres, who writes briefly in The
New York Saturday Review, which we
hold to be the very best magazine in
the United States, and by a very great
deal the cheapest, about the multiply
ing of fiction. He writes:
I'm the name of heaven, does any
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-17

The paper in 1.-The Wake Forest Stu
! dent" for October by Professor w. L.
Poteat, on The Appeal to Nature"
was read by us with genuine pleasure.
1t is a part of a literary address de-
livered before the Woman's College, in
the Academy Of Music in Richmond,
I Va, on the 9Th of Jun last. It is too
close, too thoughtful, it strikes us, for
an address of the kind. 1t is abstruse
and replete with indications of study,
| and is a clever piece of literary work,
showing familiarity with the prevail
ing types of doubt in this materialistic,
speculative, sceptical century, the
mother Of infinite fads and accumulat-
ing "isms." 1t is really a capital pa
| per, as it appears in the Magazine, and
is we'll finished and elaborate in
thought, the production of a man of
cultivation and reflection. Speaking Of
the ~"blood-red sins of humanity and
some of the productions in letters, Pro-
fessor Poteat says:
''The degenerate realism 7 have in
mind is under bonds to a materialistic
| and sensual constituency. which pro-
tests that it will read nothing that does
not thrill and shock. 1t rakes among
! the pestilential dregs of the cup of life,
| seeking new surprises for over-refined
and vitiated p~alates, and, as Nordau
Enthusiastically phrases, it spreads,
as. with a mason's trowel, a layer of OBJ
scenity over all it's work A single
French family, whose history has filled
the annals of crime and mental disor-
der for siXty-five years, has supplied
lola with material for all his novels"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01
Suet Pudding with Roast Beef.

A suet pudding, cut in slices, is a
favorite accompaniment to roast beef,
and far more digestible than dough
dumplings. The mode of preparing it
consists simply in making a plain suet
pudding, which should be boiled in a
cloth, in a long shape. Before serving
the pudding it should be cut in slices
and fried in dripping from the drip
ping-pan. Batter pudding is seasonal
BILE at all times. In the spring, when
fresh fruit is scarce, it is an economi-
cal plan to mix the fruit with batter.
Green gooseberries and currents make
an excellent pudding in this way. In
the winter, also, dish of apples,
peeled and cored and covered with bat
ter, is an agreeable change. Another
economical mode of using apples is to
place alternate layers of bread and but
ter and apples in a pie dish. The ap-
pies should be previously boiled and
sweetened. When the dish is full, the
pie should be baked in the oven, with
an inverted dish on top.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01

in spite Of that edict by every WON.
who had the money to buy one, are to
be seen in greater number than ever.
There is no striking novelty of design
among them, but all are attractive.
Some cost as much as a dollar and a
dollar and a half a yard, but there
are many others that cost only thirty
nine cents, and will certainly wear one
season at least.
It is confidently stated, and on good
aut- ority, that grenadines, crepons
ard crepe de chine will be far more
fashionable this season than silks. In
spite of this, women crowd around the
silk counters and buy not only one, but
as many silk gowns as possible. When
economy has to be consulted, silk
gown is cheaper than one made of the
aforementioned fabrics, and, further
more, does not demand silk Innings. A
silk gown, particularly a taffeta silk,
can be made to look quite as effective
lined with nearsilk or a thin percaline,
whereas grenadine or thin crepon must
be made over silk Innings to have any
smart look at all.
There are many novel ways of trim
ming the silk gowns. Lace, of course,
is always used, but, besides lace, jet
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01

paSSementerie, ribbon, grass linen and
even brocade and velvet are in style.
An exceedingly smart gown of dark
blue satin foulard, with a small design
in white, has yoke and sleeves of thin
India grass cloth, strapped with black
velvet bands. On the skirt are black
velvet bands Of varying width, put at
the bottom of the bias f1ounce.
A gown of the Persian figured foul
ard has the skirt made in tunic shape,
but quite long enough to hide the un-
derskirt, which is finished with a wide
band of gray broadcloth. The waist is
in jacket shape, and has a fitted waist
coat and revers Of dark blue velvet.
Another gown of Persian figured
foulard is trimmed with bands Of white
lace insertion on the underskirt and
boIero jacket also of white Irish lace.
There are vest, collar and pointed cuffs
of velvet, the shade of the blue in the
foundation of the material, but around
the neck are two narrow bias bands of
velvet, the color of the pink and yellow
of the figured design.
Polka dotted silks are again extreme
ly fashionable, and the dots are of
every conceivable size. In some de-
signs all the sizes are used at once, but
the smartest gowns are those made
either with the large or very small
dots. A dainty little gown for trav-
cling and general wear is made of a
dark blue ground. with the smallest
dot, and has no trimming whatever ex-
cepting the material itself. The skirt
is circular shape, with folds around the
foot. The waist is made like the
tucked silk waists, with pointed yoke
at the back. but the sleeves are like
dress sleeves, with pointed faring
cuffs. The belt and collar are made of
the silk, cut on the bias. OF course the
beauty of this gown depends largely
upon it's cut and fit, but it is a most at
tractive model to follow, and one that
will not be common.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01
SUMMER EXCURSIONS

To Detroit, Mich. Annual conven-
ton Christian Endeavorers. Tickets on
sale July 1st and End with return Ii
NIT of July 18th. Extension of return
limit can be made to August 18th.
Rate S52 80 for the round trip.
sale July 9Th and gu: good for return
to August 3. Extension of limit for
return can be secured to August Is.
Rate 1915 for the round trip.
Seaside Excursions-To Los Angeles,
Santa Monica, Santa Barbara, San
Diego and other California points.
Tickets on sale Thursday of each
week, with q return limit of ninety
days. Stop-overs allowed at pleasure
both going and returning at points
trip
Summer excursion Rates to
all the we'll known Springs,
Mountain and Lake resorts of the
north, east and south. Tickets will be
on sale until September 3Oth good for
return until October 31st, Full infor-
nation cheerfully given on applica-
ton.
Fourth of July rates from Ell Paso
west. To points within distance of
300 miles, a. rate of one single fare for
the round trip. Tickets on sale July
LIST, End and 3rd, good for return to
July 9Th and where distance is over
300 miles July 9Th.
From Ell Paso east, tickets on sale
July Bird and 4th good for rtturn on
July 5th, within q distance of 200
miles at rate of one and one-third
fare
For information as to routes, time
and service, and for Pullman and tour
list car reservations, call at Southern
Pacific City Ticket Office. Cor. San A n
tonic and Oregon SITS.
It. E. HUNT,
Com'l gent.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01

Alfalfa and Corn for Hogs-The
farmers Of the corn belt can pet a
good pointer on pig feeding from the
alfalfa belt. 1 have seen a pig that
was narrowed Sept. 20, 1898, and raised
on a ration two thirds of which was
alfalfa hay, which is as large as any
pig can find in the corn belt narrowed
in June, July or August. The nup-
tials of King Corn and Queen Alfalfa
are announced to take place on my
farm at an early date. The fourth
cutting Of alfalfa is the best hay for
hogs in winter. This cutting is done
late in the fall and is raked immedi-
ately and shocked, thus curing with
out very much sun. The leaves and
all are saved in q succulent condition.
thus making a seed that is relished by
the pigs.-Homestead
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01
Good News for Suburbanites.

Coney Island traffic is to be diverted
this year from the trolley lines for
merly operated by the Nassau railway
through the picturesque suburbs of
Brooklyn and Bay Ridge. The consol-
idation of Brooklyn's street railway in
terests makes it possible to accomplish
desired changes, by which the traffic
for the West End of Coney Island will
be carried over the former Sea Beach
railway tracks, now operated as a
branch Of the Third Avenue line. Res
idents of Bensonhurst, Bath Beach,
Fort Hamilton and Borough Park will
benefit by the change.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01
Summer Rates

Commencing June 1st and continuing
until Sept. 3Oth 1899 the Queen &
Crescent route will place in effect
from all coupon stations regular sum-
mer resorts in east Tennessee. North
Carolina, Virginia and northern .re
sorts good until Oct. 31st. The Queen
and Crescent offers to the public excel
lent service. Train leaving New Or
leans daily 7:30 p. m. arrives Gin
cinnati next evening 1870 thus giving
twenty-four hours schedule, carrying
Pullman Buffet sleeper. There is al
80 Through Pullman sleeping car on
this'train to New York, running by way
Chattanooga, Bristol. Lynchburg,
Washington and Pa. r. r. thus pene-
trating the very heart of the summer
resorts. Train leaving Shreveport
daily at 9:IO a. m. carries through
Pullman sleeper to Chattanooga,
where change can be made into the
Cincinnati or New Y ork sleepers with
out getting off train.
For detailed Information as to rates,
routes, etc. apply to any ticket agent
or T. M. Hunt. T. P. Dallas, Tex, r.
J. Anderson, A. G. P. A., or Geo. II.
Smith, G. P. A. New Orleans.
When Won wish the FL PasO DAIRY
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01
For Spring and Summer.

After the mOmeutouS question of the
spring tailor costume is settled the
next gowns to be planned are the silks
that are to be worn during the spring
and summer, and, indeed, there are no
gowns in a woman's wardrobe that are
more interesting to decide upon.
There is something about a silk gown
that makes it peculiarly attractive to a
woman, and these fascinating summer
silks, with their charming designs and
colorings, are almost impossible to re-
sist, particularly this season, when
there is such a wide range of prices to
choose from.
A black silk costume is now abSo-
1utely indispensable, and the number
of waists possible for one gown makes
life much simpler, when economy has
to be consulted, or when it is desired
to travel with as little luggage as pos
sible. To begin with, there must be
high-necked waist to match the skirt;
then there can be low waist trimmed
with jet or white lace, and as many
other waists as one wants in silk or
wash materials.
Both the figured black taffetas and
the figured black Indias are consid-
cred fashionable. The taffetas are
sitter and much warmer than the In
dias, but the effect of both is much the
same when they are made up. 1t must
be said, though, that it is a mistake to
buy too stiff a taffeta silk, one that
has too much dressing; for although it
possesses a fine appearance to start
with, the silk is much more likely to
split and wear than one that to begin
with looks poorer.
1t is remarkable how many different
designs there are in these figured
black silks. Some have large figures,
others small ones. The polka-dot eff
fects are considered particularly smart
also those with wavy bayadere stripes.
The plain black silks, taffetas and In
dias are not questionable but are not
this year considered quite so smart as
the figured ones. They cost rather
more, and require more trimming.
The colored foulards are endless in
coloring and design; the satin foulards
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01
Before the Mirror.

Before the Mirror.
Now, like the Lady of Shalott.
1 dwell within empty room,
And through the day and through the
night,
sit before an ancient loom.
And like the Lady of Shalott,
look into a mirror wide,
Where shadows come and shadows go,
And ply my shuttle they glide.
Not as she wove the yellow wool,
Ulysses wife, Penelope;
By day a queen among her maids,
But in the night a woman, she,
Who, creeping from her lonely couch,
Unravelled all the slender wool;
Or with torch she climbed the towers,
To fire the fagots on the roof!
But weaving with a steady hand
The shadows, whether false or true,
I put aside a doubt which asks,
Among these phantoms what are
you?"
For not with altar. tomb or urn,
Or long-haired reek with hollow shield,
Or dark-prowed ship with bank of oars,
Or banquet in the tented field;
Or Norman-knight in armor clad,
Waiting a foe where four roads meet;
Or hawk and hound in bosky dell,
Where dame and page in secret greet;
Or rose and lily, bud and flower,
My web is broidered. Nothing bright,
Is woven here; the shadows grow
Still darker in the mirrors light!
And my web grows darker, too,
Accused seems this empty room;
know 1 must forever weave
These phantoms by this hateful loom.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01
FOR WOMAN ANDHOME
ITEMS OF INTEREST FOR MAIDS
AND NATIONS.

Summer SILK Gowns In Newest Styles
There Are Many Waists to One Skirt,
and In Color and Design There Is
Great Variety.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01


are the newest and are exquisitely soft
and graceful when draped The satin
foulards are the smartest, and those
with a blue ground are the most pop
ular. They have white designs all over
them. A red and white one-a partic-
ularly attractive one-has a white
clover leaf with a red center Then
there are the Persian designs, absolute
ly new and extremely effective, and
dark blue, with a line of green and
then a line of Persian pattern on
white. The same idea is carried out on
a black ground, and there are more in
light yellows and orange, with an all
over Persian design that makes I'D
very satisfactorily.
The blue and white foulards that
have been pronounced out Of style for
two or three years and have been worn
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01

The way the western range men
are doing business in the matter of
improving their herds is opening
the eyes of the eastern and south
eastern small farmer who combines
stock raising with his farming opera
lions, says Dakota Farmer. The big
stock raisers of the west are constant
ly going east and southeast for their
bulls and they secure the best animals,
leaving the second rate bulls for the
farmers in those sections. They can
afford to take the best and pay a high
price for what they get, If quality is
commensurate, for they have large
numbers of breeding cows in their
herds, but it does not often occur that
the small farmer can make the same
sort of transactions, for he has but u
few head Of females and cannot make
ends meet if he pays as high price as
do the western stockmen. The result
is as would be expected-the western
herds have the finest bulls and the
quality of the whole herd is good. and
all the time it is being graded up. The
small eastern herds are either standing
still or retrograding in quality. AS
consequence the western cattle are
topping the markets when properly
fattened and finished.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01

When you wish the Ell Paso Dairy
company ring up No. 1855.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-11-09

THE LINCOLN MONUMENT.
The Contract Let for Its RestoratI 0n-Ths
New Monument to BE Like the Old
One with Taller Shaft.

Springfield, ILL.,, Nov. Gov. Tan
ner, State Treasurer Whittemore and
State Superintendent OF Public Instruc-
ton Bayliss, composing the board OF
commissioners of the national Lincoln
monument, yesterday let the contract
for the restoration OF the monument
here to the Culver Construction COM
pany, of Springfield, their bid being
s94,5OO and the lowest. The Culver
company will go to work at once on
the restoration Of the monument. 1t
must be finished according to contract
by November /, 1900. A temporary
hall for the keeping Of the Lincoln tro-
phies now being kept in the monument
will be built Just what disposition
will be made with the bodies of the
president, his wife and son, Tad Lin
coin, has not been decided upon.
Probably a temporary vault will be
erected and a Waterman employed TO
guard II.
State Superintendent Of Public In
struction Bayliss in speaking Of the
contract said: 1.-THE monument when
completed will be as near like the pres
ent one as possible. Every piece Of
material now in the monument found
available will be used. The shaft will
be about Is feet higher, which will be
the only material change"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-11-09
TROUBLE WITH NEGROES.


Macon, NO.. Nov. 6.-In spite OF the
vigilance Of Superintendent Vail, a
body OF negroes got out of the stock
ade at mine No. 81 yesterday morning
and started toward town. On arriving
near mine No. Z they stationed them
selves in railroad cut and began
firing into houses over the hill. David
CANDLES residence was riddled with
bullets and the family had to lay fat
on the floor to escape the fusillade. o.
L. Trollard's house was also attacked
in a similar manner and several others
had to evacuate their homes. Sheriff
Glenn came home Saturday night and
the negroes took advantage of his
absence to resume their outrages. He
returned to Bevier yesterday and i'm
mediately went to mine No. 81 and
will endeavor to locate the guilty
parties and arrest them. This second
uprising has thoroughly aroused the
people of Bevier and they are deter
mined it shall be the last. Several
parties came to Macon yesterday in
quest Of rifles and ammunition and a
request was made OF Prot. Clendin for
the guns of the military academy, but
they had no cartridges for them. A
show Of force is necessary before the
negroes will consent to be disarmed
and peace is not expected until this is
There is no lack of
to assist the sheriff and
wholesale arrests are looked for.