The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-17

fire tried radical and democratic de-
serter-are now tucked away in the
same little truckle-bed, and all for love
of the dear Sambos.
The Charlotte Observer cruelty pokes
a little fur ait Representative Linney's
rhetorical flourish in his long attempted
reply to Hon. Tom Settles lucid, clear
cut, incisive, easily understood letter
to him upon the election law and the
proposed suffrage amendment. 1t
quotes the liable jurist" as saying:
IAN unconstitutional law is the tooth
that may pierce and poison the vital
spark in the body polite"
The comment is fair and pointed:
1.-THE d of a tooth piercing a spark
is altogether a new one. The diSting-
ished and usually accurate representa-
tive of the eighth district has mixed his
metaphors"
The great lawyer may take comfort
for we can show a dozen or more false
figures used by men of real parts who
can lay his own Manufacture cold.
We inlteded Ito write of Linney's very
long-drawn out vaporings butt today
instead o elsewhere from we'll con-
sidered remarks of the Observer.
The Messenger has been waiting for
some time for the announcement of a
very old person in our state. Ten Or
twenty years ago you would read OF
ITO, 120, 40, and once even as high as
1913 years among the old folks, but the
high figures dropped and finally reach
ed from SO Ito los or 10S now and then.
Of course in nearly all instances proof
of g was lacking. Butt after waiting
long we are comforted. Aunt Polly
Patterson, a venerable negress, reach
ed the good old age'' Of ia years in
Orange county before she was gather
ed to her fathers. North Carolina is a
| great state, and in stories of the aged
| cannot we'll be excelled. 1T is hard Ito
believe sometimes when all records are
wanting.
The international Holiness Conven-
ton is to meet alt Greensboro on 24th
inst. Tt is very probable that the
advocates of instantaneous santi-
ficajtion mistake in most instances
Bible conversion for %unbiblical anc-
tification that is for a something
not scriptural. A writer in the
Raleigh Post puts it in this wise:
I'm my observation, h holiness o
tingent forms an absolutely new re-
ligious sect. The ease with which they
make final disposition of the world,
the flesh and the devil is amazing.
According to their conception one may
accomplish in a night of credulity des-
ignated as faith, the same personal ex-
emptions from temptation and wicked
ness that canonized the marvellous
idiot, st, Simon Stylites, after he had
stood on n foot as a pillar for some
thirty hrs
Here is the way Jeter Pr1tchard, late
of Brownlow's state, refers to the
new alliance between him and Butler,
the traitor:
Il saw Senator Buffers statement"
said he, land I am glad to observe
that he is coming around to my way
OF thinking on this subject. Under
normal conditions North Carolina is a
republican state and with a fair cleo
ton we can hold the state in line in
definitely"
The white constructors against the
White Mans party in North Carolina
will be fooled in 1900 in spite of Nc
Kinley and his gang. The true white
men-not the negrophilists and deser-
ters of race and blood-will not again
pass under the negro yoke in North
Carolina Revolutions never go back
ward, and the enemies of good govern
ment should know this.
Our venerable friend Mr.. James H.
Enniss, Of Raleigh. a issued his al
manac for 1901. 1t is always handy and
necessary for every we'll regulated
household and place of business. In
1888, the late Mr.. Henry D. Turner,
who was particularly well known to
this writer after 1874. began the publi-
cation Of the North Carolina Almanac.
He kept Y up until his daakh IA 1866.
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