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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-01-05

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cure Group. Many home has been made
desolate by the loss of dear child which
could have been saved bv this great
remedy.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-01-05

w. j. Kelly has moved from Kelly
view to this place and will occupy
property near the Sulphur Springs.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-01-05
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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-17
BREVITIES.

President Dabney, University of Ten
that "a great crime should ''be per-
petrated.' We repudiate n spurn
the statement as unworthy of a south
ern Christian teacher. Might makes
is not the merciful Gods law"
The war upon the Beers by the Brit
ish has begun. 1t is the strong, the
very powerful, against a weak people
fighting for Independence.
With what kind of grace and con-
sistency could Mckinley intervene. II
he had the power to do SO, to stop the
war between Great Britain and the
Beers, when for a year he has beer
conducting a war against a weak peo-
pie who deserve every way as much
sympathy as the Beers receive? Both
are outrages against a weak enemy.
General Schwan did big work In his
late "triumphal march" against the
Filipinos. He succeeded in killing many
natives TO punish them for daring to
get in his way. Civilization, you see,
is on top.
Mckinley fancies he is already En-
peror. He gives it out that the Philip
pines are definitely and permanently a
part OF the United States possessions.
He ought 10 be impeached for usurpa-
ton.
Any expression Of sympathy with the
Beers on h part of Americans must
necessarily be a sharp rebuke to Nc
kinley for his war upon the Ffl!pinos.
At Minnesota the great crowd would
not hear to Secretary Longs very
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-17
REPUBLICANS OF MASSACHUSETTS
SPEAK.

The Massachusetts, republicans in
their convention did not hurrah in har-
monious voice for Mckinley and his
war doings. Some of his organs are
trying to be h~alf-satisfied with the
deliverances, but it is less than half
hearted. The platform was not the
platform h a Mckinley or his lieuten-
ants would have drawn, or his master,
Mark the Leper. What did they say
as to the Philippines? They expressed
the hope (and it expressed their opin-
ion and wishes) that the Filipinos will
liberal, and Is progressive as our Owl,
in accordance with the sacred principles
Of liberty and self-govcrnment upon
which the American republic so Sc
curely rests" Of course they blow
for little Mac, but they are not pleased
evidently at the condition of affairs in
the Philippines and with the attempt
to rob them of the precious right of
liberty and self government" The
conclusion Of the last resolution is
this:
Under the treaty with Spain the
law of nations put upon the United
States are responsibility for the peace
and security of life and property, the
we'll being and the future government
Of the Philippine islands. Accepting
this responsibility, it is our profound
trust that the present hoStilitieS car
be brought to an early termination, and
that congress, guided by a wise and
nofriotia admin ict ya tian will hlicL
and maintain in those islands, hithert
the home of tyrants, a government as
free, as liberal and as progressive as
our own"
There is really no urp to indorse
or demand imperialism in such declara-
tons. They are pacific, magnanimous
Just and honorable. The following
shows what leaders in New England
think of it. The Boston Advertiser
| says that 1.-The treatment of the Phil.
ippine problem deserves very warn
praise, indeed" and that, fairly in.
terpreted, the language is nothing les:
than a distinct rebuke of Jingoism,'
while The Springfield Republican an.
| nounces that it can stand upon a pIanl
whose words are pregnant with tn,
doctrine of freedom as Massachusetts.
has preached and practised it," Elk
Governor Boutwell,, who has been tn,
leader of the anti-imperialists, say.
that he feels greatly pleased with tn,
Philippine plank of the platform" tina
lit means freedom and. independence,
| for the Philippines" that it lis a seri
| Gus blow at the Mckinley administra
| ton" p
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-17
"a Journal Landed them much. We

ca Journal Landed them much. We
give a part OF what ne wrote:
The negroes on that programme ap-
peared 20 magnificent advantage last
night, and shared in equal measure
every laurel Of the white men who Wis
tied them IL there were any point OF
difference. II is the simple truth 10 a
that h honors OF the evening were
with the darker / speak with de-
liberation now, and weigh my words
in the narration OF detail. The master
OF ceremonies was the Rev. H. H.Proc-
tor, and no better presiding officer has
come under my observation in Atlanta
From first to last he was the graceful
master Of tie occasion Dignity, impress
~siveness, felicity Of manner accuracy
Of speech, and the keenest and most
tactful statement Of the meaning OF
the occasion and Of the appropriateness
Of each speaker 10 the programme. We
have no presiding officer of either ace
IN Atlanta who could have bettered
the performance last night He was a
dark mulatto. In the speech OF DR.. j.
NJ. Henderson, an even darker man.
the public in attendance was treated
20 as fine a specimen Of fiery and i'm
passioned elcquence as / have ever
heard in Atlanta. I say 1t deliberately
that we nave no orator of either race
in this city that could surpass in force,
in magnetism, in delivery, and in Wig
orous diction the really magnificent
burst of this negro educator. Booker
Washington presented his cause withsa
tact, a courtesy, a plausibility. and u
power which no publicist in Georgia
has surpassed
We think Washington is the wise
man of his race. He is not only well
Informed and with much intellectual
resource, but he is well balanced, dis
Greet, broad in view, candle in express
sion and wise. He does not believe Ii
possible to deport the negroes. His OBJ
servations abroad led him to m
ize after this sort as given in the Even
ing Post:
washington is convinced of two
things: 10 that there are no ten mill
lions Of black men in Africa as we'll off
as the blacks of the southern states are
today; CD that there is no white peas
antry in Europe provided with SO many
comforts or having so good a chance to
earn a living or to rise in the world as
the colored people of the south have to-
day."
| The northern man reporting this says
that he agrees with him and says that
Ii AASoAAAAi 40 tiAol AK OiaSh liidi 10
now in h best place for him that this
world affords. Colonization, even if it
were practicable, is not a thing for the
black man to desire. 1t offers no ad-
| vantages ITO him." Mr.. Graves, who
| SO lauds Washington and the other
| colored speakers, is of another opinion.
We quote:
He insists that the race problem is
insoluble except by separation, because
| these black men, able, eloquent, pro-
gressive, vital in health, rich in attain
ment, painting with ambition and pur-
pose, will not be content with perpetual
inferiority in the republic. They will
not be content to sit down supinely as
su~bordinates and interiors and gather
in servile submission, from the white
mans table the crumbs which his
kindness and condescension may fling
him"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-17

body in this broad land read books on
sociology. psychology, morphology. ped
agogy. art, science, religion, politics,
philosophy? Will the wisdom OF all the
world die with ~novelists? I am satiat-
ed, saturated, inundated, interpenetrat-
ed with Henry James, Robert Louis
Stevenson, Hardy, Gable, Robins, How
ellis, Swift, Weyman, Game, Zangwt1l
and a host of others too numerous to
mention Give US a rest on the
novel for awhile. dear emotion seekers.
Go up against the proper thing-as my
friend Chuck Connors would say. Take
a day off and read a few of the big
guys. I warrant ii to cure you all Of
that Inspirations mania"
Think of David Harum' reaching
already a sale of 10000, and still selling
at 1000 a week. The mania for fiction
is wide, violent and incurable. Do peo-
pie nowadays V read great works
Of any kind-histories. biographies,
travels, essays, poems, dramatic writ
ings, PHILOSOPHERS, or even the great
novels? We suppose here and there
through the land you can find a few
who do read the best books-the old,
great books. The same conditions
exist in Great Britain rs in our own
land, as we learn from London "Litera-
ture."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-17

According to report the lawyers at
Statesville do not admire Judge Rob-
inson, and are anxious to shut him
out from holding court again in that
city. A special to the Raleigh Post
states that the lawyers "have petition
ed the board of county commissioners
of Iredell county not to draw a jury,
for the civil term of the superior court.
1t is further stated that the county
commissioners have decided to grant
the petition. Many reasons are heard
to account for this course of action, but
information has been obtained which
gives, as the real reason for this
course, the desire of the bar or States
vile that Judge w. S. OBJ. Robinson
shall not hold another term of the civil
our there. Discourtesy on the part
of the judge to the members of the bar
is the alleged reason given why the bar
has taken this course"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-17

Greensboro is agitated from centre
to circumference. The stomachs OF
the people are in open rebellion. The
cause Of the disturbance is a heavy
exodus OF sable cooks who a hied
themselves northward. attracted by bet
ter wages. and. perhaps. by itful
CLEANS of social equality. AT any rate.
they have packed their bags and have
literally vamosed the ranch. The places
tina have known them in Greensboro
shall know them no more until the
principle of equality of all sorts Is
recognized and enforced in North Caro-
lima by the aid of Marion Butler and
Jeter Pritchard and the gang. so
there will be hunger and moaning In
Greensboro unless they can import for
eign labor. Think of $50 cooks leaving
in one small town. The Statesville
Landmark is practical and says:
This is a free country and the col
ored sisters have a right to throw up
their jobs and go north il they want
to. The thing the Greensboro people
and all the rest of us-for the servan
girl problem is a serious one in all
towns II growing more so every
year-want to do is to evolve some
plan to get along without colored help
by filling their places with something
better"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-17
POT POURRI.

General Joseph E. Johnston gave it
as his opinion that the greatest mill
tary genius of the war between the
south and the north was Major Gen.
eral Bedford Forrest, who vas born in
Tennessee and of North Carolina blood
and descent. We think his forebears
went from this state. You will find
the authority for the great soldiers
estimate of Gen. Forrest in Gen. Brad
ley T. Johnson's volume on him, a very
interesting work. A Life of Forrest
has just been published We read q
few chapters and found it very en-
crossing and animated. The south
should learn much more Of this Won
derful soldier. How Napoleon would
have praised and honored him! He
would have rivalled Lannes and sur
passed Ney.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-17

thou mayest escape thou canst not es-
cape Gods righteous judgment. God
is Love. He is long suffering and His
manifest purpose is to save all who
will come unto Him for pardon and
salvation. He manifests unto the chill
dren His most benignant attributes
that He nay win them to repentance
and faith and salvation. But He will
not pardon and saw the sinner, the per-
son who rejects His invitations, despises
His promises of mercy, violates His
laws, continues in sin and does despite
to the Spirit of grace-men who de
spisest the riches OF His goodness and
forbearance and longsuffering." (verse
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-17

Reading recently the letter of Paul
TO the Romans we were impressed TO
write something upon the second chap
ter. If you have never read with care
{ he first chapter do SO, for it is a fear
full description of the extreme deprav-
ity and wretched life of the Roman
people. 1T is the most terrible arralgn-
r1ent of the lowest and most beastly
living possible. The. second chapte
opens with a statement thai OF the
Gentiles in that day even fallen and
extremely vicious in life, that the con-
dStion of the Jews was not so favor
able that they might rebuke them and
point the finger of scorn at them. n
guilt of sin was deeply stamped upon
the one class, but their r%evilers were not
themselves free from guilt and con-
demnation. st. Paul begins: There
fore thou art inexcusable, o man, what
soever thou art that judgest; for where
I'm thou judgest another, thou condemn
est thyself; for thou thai judgest doest
h same things" You may think
yourself safe, out you ae guilty of the
same OIIeuCeS anu SldIlu pSIoIC ooN
guilty and condemned. People now as
then are prone ito censure others for
conduct not more heinouS than their
own. People become pulled with pride
and conceit, and condemn others who
are no greater sinners before God than
they are. The contention of he inspired
Apostle is that the Jews had offended
oa n-t tfbn low Of MncnC &c
the Gentiles had offended against the
law of nature; and consequently their
,censuring and judging others, when
they did the same thing themselves,
would render them. totally ineXcusa-
BILE at Gods tribunal" (Burkitts
The Jew before God was i~nexcusable
Just as the Gentiles were inexcusable.
They were all in the same boa SHINING
against God. Non need ito hope to es-
cape the Indignation and Judgment of
Jehovah. They will all be judged who
offend by transgression. God is really
no respecter of persons. But we are
sure that the judgment of God is &C
cording to truth, against them which
commit such things" Verse % The
God of the Universe reigneth in right
eousness, and He will judge iniquity.
You may rest assured that God makes
no mistakes, that He is merciful and
good, and that His Judgment is ac-
cording to truth against all evil doors,
high or low, young or Did, that too with
out the slightest Partially and without
respect to persons. and thinkest thou
this, 0 man, . that. thou shall es-
cape the . judgment Of God?' Vain
hope, vain thought! Whatever else
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-17
THE HONORING OF DISTINGUISHED
NEGROES IN THE SOUTH $

AT Huntsville, Alabama, one of the
prettiest towns we ever visited in all
Southland, that was a discussion of in
terest and surprises in which President
Booker Washington and Prof. Council
colored, and Gov. MacCorkle,. partici-
pated. The position taken by Wash
ngton was the one he always takes
ITO have an educational test in elections
to be applicable to both races. Council
was for no politics for the negro and a
good education. The Governor favor
ed a strict educational qualification for
the negroes, and both races Endorsed
him.
This meeting is suggestive of the
meeting held in Atlanta on the 25th of
September last. Booker Washington
had a reception extended to him in the
First Congregational church, (negro).
Gov. Chandler made the address Of
welcome. Mr.. G. B.. Glenn, state COM
missioner of education, also spoke.
They were kind and sensible deliver
ances. A northern man who was pres
emit writes to the N. Y. Evening Post,
a paper strongly sympathetic with the
negroes as voters, of what he saw and
heard. He says Of the two speeches.:
"On the other hand, there was every
evidence in what they said, n in their
manner of saying ii, that they were
moved by true sympathy and an ear
nest desire to be helpful to the colored
people, and this I found to be true of
all the white men and women of intel
Il ljOannn whom mot of At1ar -o on1
everywhere else"
President Washington, the honored
guest, spoke, and on lines now familiar
to the public. He told the crowd thai,
he had lived in the aristocratic own of
Tuskegee for eighteen years and no
white man ever insuEted him. The
northern man reports a remark made
to him by Washington:
THE black man will truct the white
man with everything except his vote.
If he has a thousand dollars to invest,
/! he Will go to some white man for ad-
vice, and will follow the advice with
perfect confidence. So, too, if he is in
trouble he will go to some white man
for help, and will limos always ga,
it."
And just in that fact lies most Of the
HrouDIe OF n negroes. They have fol-
lowed the very worst possible leader
ship OF hungry, INSCRIPTIONS bad
whites, and have steadily voted agains;
the best interests of 80 per cent. of the
white tax payers. They have gloried
in their pertinacious, violent, determin-
ed hostility to the very men who were
indeed their best friends and proved it
daily by employing them, by helping
them when in distress and in educating
their children and providing for the
deaf and dumb and the insane of their
race.
Mr.. John T. Graves, one of the COM
ing men in Georgia, and credited with
superior oratory, was completely ap-
tured by Washington and the other
speakers Of his race, and in the Allan
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-17

RlacIwood's Magazine, the best Oh
the British monthlies, and famous for
raarIv eighty years a a paper on
..rhe Origin of Christian Science" 1t
says Mrs. Eddy is not the ounde as
sh- claims to be. We copy:
The real founder was a certain
Ph.nea P. Quimby, who was IN pusl-
M IS as a blacksmith in a SINAI New
England town in the early sixties. III
n & snare time he practiced healing py
n .ntal suggestion, with such success
tlat patients fiocked to him from all
MATS of the state, and among them
came Mrs. Eddy, who was suffering
from some nervous disorder that deneo
mtEtcal skill. Quimby was contempt
BIZ wanting in enterprise; tnough II
was patent to all that there was money
IN the thing he continued to give MS
services for nothing, and even 10 I'M
part the theory Of his practice ITO any
of his patients who cared ito listen 10
him. Mrs. Eddy sucked him dry, ana
returned home full Of new thoughts.
She realized at once the defects and the
possibilities of her masters teaching.
Ha used the Bible for his cures; he ar
cared that of the two commands laid
uuon the apostles-to preach the Cos
mel and to heal the sick-the Church
had obeyed the first and neglected the
second. Therein were endless posi-
bilities."
Joseph Smith founded Mormonism
Joe was a New York State man. n
Ouimby STRUCK lie" in his science OF
cure. Mrs. Eddy is IAN excellent wo-
man Of business" and she has got ricf
out of her professed science of cure
She took three years ito prepare Quinn
by's plan for solid work. She started
a Metaphysical College," and the al
legged christian Science" Blackwoot
says:
In reality she played Shakespeare tt
Phineas P. Quimby's Boccacc1o; sht
stole the idea and made a masterpiece
of it, as many other great artists nave
done before her"
Mark Twain, the great American hu'
morist born in Missouri, has beer
amusing the people by a paper in thu
October N. Y. Cosmopolitan. We have
not space to refer to it now. but he
gives christian Science" very "partlc'
uIar fits We mention that Mrs. Jos
ephine c.. Woodbury. has sued Mrs
Eddy for libel She wants $3.50, 900 dam
ages. She has been slandered is tbs
charge.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-17

The Messenger has many times prais-
ed Uncle Remus' and his other de-
lightfully original writings. A new
book by him should interest southern
readers. It's title is plantation Pa
geants" and it is a square octave, fully
illustrated, containing 247 pages, price
81. We read two or three of the chap
ters as they appeared serially, and
found that Uncle Remus's' hand had
not lost it's cunning, nor had his HUI
NOR become stale. and improbable. The
publishers, Messrs. Houghton, Miffin
& Co., of Boston, say that this volume
lis a continuation of the delightful
ThimbIefinger' stories. Sweetest Su-
san, Buster John, Drusilla, Aaron and
other we'll known characters figure in
it. The book contains a tale of Bre1
Rabbit and the Coolers; describes the
strange WAGNER and his passenger, lit
tie Billy Biscuit; and is full of Mr.,
Harris's best, finely illustrated" Joe
Chandler Harris is one Of the best Of
the original literary products of Geor-
! gia. His chance for a hundred years
| or more of literary life is better thar
any of the other authors of Georgia
we would suppose.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-17

Mrs. Browning was perhaps the great
est modern poet among omen She
had a poor estimate of some Ameri-
ans as well as a false view of this
country in which her distinguished
husband shared. He was astonished
OF Mr.. Lowell, they a no proper esti-
mate. They seem to have cherished
something well nigh of contempt even
for Lowell. Julia A. Hartwell, of Mont
gomery, Ala, writing of their treat
ment Of Americans in a recent issue
of The New York Saturday Review,
says:
But heal the Brownings when they
come to our Mr.. Lowell. His book had
been given to Mr.. Browning, and Mr..
Lowell has his sympathy because he
admires you,' CMrs. b., n is not
Indifferent to his good word for my
self Condescending! But these
| American books should not be reprint
ed here! One asks what n where is
the class to whom the Brownings adj
dress themselves, for no doubt we have
our congregations of ignoramuses that
| enjoy the profoundest ignorance imagi-
! ndDlo on the SUBJECTS tfedIeO u, Uut
| these are evidently not the audience
Mr.. Lowell reckons on"
There is more of the same kind OF
! studied detraction. And Mrs. Brown
ing had a poor opinion of Poe, at whose
feet she could have sat for a lifetime
| to learn the true poetic art, the mas
terry of versification, the way to be
melodious and lucid and charming
We quote from the Hartwell paper:
Mr.. Lowell is in his own books poeti.
cal, if not a poet. The little book is
grateful enough in some way@yoJ
would call it a pretty book, would yoI
not?" They are rather lenient to Mr.
Lowell as he praised them. Mrs
Browning is very severe on Poe, who
had made a dedication to her, an6
whom she calls mad, but has ONE diff.
ficulty is not admiring.. She sent Mr.
Browning Poe's book, and " Poll
tan will make o laugh as The Ra.
ven made me laugh, and there is more
faculty in the account of that horrible
mesmeric experience tina in his Pc
etry.'"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-17
in the record.-rarboro south

break in the record.-Tarboro South
erner.
Where Is Genera Ransom? He Is
quite rich. according TO b North Car
DINA standard. There have In h past
many United States senator's from our
state VINO ranked in their day among
the rich. Macon. Badger. Graham and
others were Of this number. The
poorest senators were Pritchard and
Butler, for they had but little OF
decent white constituency and we're.
therefore, poor indeed"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-17
HOME FOLKS.
The Oxford Ledger says it was a mis-
take as to there being a negro instruc-
tor in the Oxford Orphan Asylum.

Evangelist James Schoolfield, of Dan
vile, Va, %denounces from the pulpit
fishing Hous deal" He calls upon the
Southern Methodist to repudiate it.
How can less be done. He said that
"he did not believe God would bless
the Southern Methodist Church until
it repudiated the whole transaction Of
the Southern Publishing House, By
which it obtained money from the Uni
ted States government. The evangelist
added that he had given the matter
careful study and consideration, and
he al what he said" He is evident
truth and honesty hold a proper place.