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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-13
'sYou Can't Catch the
Wind Inn a Net 81

Neither can You catarrh by local applica-
tons. IT is constitutional disease and is cured
by Hoods Sarsaparilla because it is a constitu-
tonal remedy. II expels from the blood the i'm
purity which causes the disease, and rebuds and
repairs the inhamed membranes.
Consumptive Cough had pive y yenssm asG
cough which reduced me to skeleton. Was ad-
vised to take Hoods Sarsaparilla. which did. and
recovered normal health l have been well ever
since MATILDA BRIDGEW AFTER, cor. Pearl
and Chestnut SITS. Jacksonville. Ind.
Hoods Sarsaparilla
Is Americas Greatest Medicine. Price. 81
Hoods Pills liver ills; the non-irritatng and
only cathartic to take with Hoods Sarsaparla.
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RAILROADS.

~, cAEsApEAkE AND OHIO RAILWAY. ~,
MERIcA THE AZ fhlSs o.
ELEcThIo LISHTEb. 8 STEAM AL,y HE4IE %
Schedule in effect June Is 1859.
2:15 Pm. DAHY-Cincinnati and st. Louis spe-
to Cincinnati. Lexington. Louisville. Indianapolis
and St. Louis without change rarloS Car Gov.
onti 1o Pm. 61iiS@F F. v Llmlted-solid train
Sleeping Car to Virginia Hot Springs connection
except Sunday. Observation Car Hinton to Cincin-
e cSssgE and s.
vile, Staunton daily. and for Richmond daily.
IKE Reservation and tickets at Chesapeake and Ohio
offices. ols Pehnsylyania avenue; zoe l4th g..
aa at .hf cab sssss call M
d. w. FULLER. General Passenger Agent.
wAsHlNGT9oNN ALExAND SaAp ANR MT. YER:
From Station. PENNsYhyA A AVENUE and 1874
In effect May 1, 1899.
500: &c. s:ss. 500 sss. 1900 SSS. i I'D AZ.
800 800 $50 7:os. 1885 $500 800 1906 n 1:sS
sssday:-7:4s, 200. s:4s: 1o;so r:1s AM.
For Mt. Vernon week days-6:S0. 500, x1O:O0
1900 AN, x12:05. x1:2o. x2:00. 1880. xS:6D,
sund lays AM. 1900 Noon. 2:1S. s:4b. e:4o
600 Pm.
For Arlington and Aqueduct Bridge week days
fisao LOO ;4s, Zoo 2:sos f$;e9. s:aS. fz:iS
Sundays-7:45. $500. 9:45, 1890. 11:16 AM,
1900 noon, 12:45 1880. 2:15, $500. s:46, $3.50.
6:l6 600, 6:46, 7:30, S:15 Pm.
Parcels carried on all trains Baggage checked
Express. To ST. Asaph only I To Airing
ton only. G. e. ABBOTT. President.
j. COLvlN Superintendent myi
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V

Carl Schurz, an able man. opposes
Imperialism and expansion and says
that they are more dangerous TO our
country than free silver. All, indeed.
The country had free silver for ninety
years, and it neither waged wars nor
piled up taxes. Imperialism does both
now.
Sc Alfred Vanderbilt was only gen
erous" to prevent a law suit.
It is pleasant to know that the emil
nent President Jefferson Davis and
family are to honored in their memo
ries at Richmond, Va.
If you can admire splendid valor and
Beers in the battle of Elandslaagte, in
yesterdays Messenger. 1t was beyond
the Homeric or the Table Round.
salt Lake is drying UP. 1t is predict
ed by men of science that it will dry up
some time in the next century 1t is
said that the waters receded a mile dur
ing the last year. The recession is due
to the diversion of the waters of the
rivers which feed the lakes for irriga-
ton DOS by the Mormons.
The great old firm of Harper & Broth
ers has been changed. The World says
that "it is said that J. Pierpont Morgan
has invested a large sum of money
some reports put it at from $4,000, 600 to
S 5000, 000-in the corporation of Harper
& Brothers. To him is attributed the
installation of S. S. Mcclure as the ac-
tive manager of the concern"
Captain Sigsbee has been no special
favorite of the administration. He will
be relieved of the command of the
Texas about December 1st and assign
ed to duty in the navy department as
chief of the bureau Of naval intall'-
gence.
In Illinois a glucose trust has been
sharply checked by the supreme court
The gold mine war still progresses in
Africa, while the Mckinley second term
war drags along in the Philippines.
Money is so plentiful in the north
they dc not know what to do with it.
It is so scarce in the south the people
do not know how to get along with
out it. 4
The government has more none
than it can use even in fighting the
Filipinos. The war taxes must go in
order to relieve the plethora in the
treasury. The cabinet is puzzled over
the problem of getting the money into
circulation and there is anxiety not to
offend bankers.
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WHAT GREEK AUTHORS HELD AS
TO ATHLETICS.

All we'll read men know that the
Greeks were not only the most aeS-
thetic, the most artistic, the most nobly
endowed mentally of all the nations of
antiquity, producing the most elegant,
perfect and splendid literature in the
most flawless, flexible, refined of Ian
guages, and perhaps destined to be the
most enduring. They were not only
producers of great poetry and elo-
quence and philosophy, but they
favored no little physical development
as we'll as mental, and their Games
attracted great interest and great
throngs of people. The three greatest
dramatic writers were AeSchyluS, So
phocles and Euripides. This is not the
time to discuss their qualities, great as
they are, although the temptation to do
so is before us. We have quite another
matter at hand. Probably of the three
S~ophocles was the greatest. At any
rate he ranks with the other two as of
the very highest grade in dramatic com
position. They all produced tragedies,
~N AA~NCA " VIZ OAA o1N "a
! few of the splendid and imposing pro-
| ducts of each have been preserved. Let
us refer to Sophocles now and for a
distinct purpose. In the "satyric drama
of Autolycus,' of which now there are
but a few fragments, he gives us a
particularly interesting account" &C.
cording to Joh Arlington Symonds,
the very accomplished and eloquent
author of two volumes that are very
precious. The Greek Poets"-a series OF
essays in continuity constituting a de-
hcious study of the many authors who
shed glory upon Greece. Mr.. Symonds
says that Sophocles in this lost play
expresses the contempt felt by Guilt
waited Athenians for young men who
devoted all their energies to gymnas
TICS" This is remarkable indeed. II
must astonish the reader who is ia
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Ia 4, wise TO muddle up politicai mat
,ars In this state by a hot light Tor the
ssnatorship while the suffrage amenu-
mant is before the people?-AsneViie
Citizen.
We favor ~legaiized primaries TOT
selection of candidates for puphc oilS
They are necessary. they az 49,
the nearest possible approach 10 ene
wishes OF the people and the most pa
ticable plan for undoirtg the macnin-
tons OF the party boss. We muss nae
primaries in North Carolina 10 pre-
serve harmony and to secure the oSS'
results.-winston Sentinel.
That point being settled so properly
and patriotically. the next and remain
ing thing TO be disposed of IS the man
ner and time Of holding the primary.
We took IL for granted that there
would be unanimous consent TO
proposition that IL should be held at
the time OF the presidential and con-
gressionai election OF 1900. as made by
The Patron and Cleaner In the article
which first brought the subject 20 pub
Iic attention. We infer. however. from
the INQUIRY OF The Wilmington Mesen-
ger evidently and naturally in aston
ishmentl II there are TO be three cleo
. tons next year, that some one has been
| suggesting a special election between
the August state election and the Mo-
MEMBER federal election Tor ascertain
ing the popular choice. That Is not
| what the rank and file OF the Demo-
cracy want at all. They do not wish re-
| publicans and others who oppose the
democracy 10 participate in such "a pri-
Notwithstanding Observer.
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The present administration are still
warning on Rear Admiral Schley. The
president is to send to the United States
senate the nominations of Sampson
and Schley as rear admirals, and some
others. The plan is to put Sampson
two numbers above Schley, and the
plan is vicious and foul. 1t is said that
by this game Sampson would advance
over Casey, Schley, Watson, Farqu-
har, Remey, and Kautz, and Schley
would be advanced over Watson, Far
quhar, Remey and Kautz.
The American people are all right.
They know who destroyed the Spanish
fleet at Santiago, and Cervera and his
officers know, who did the effective
work. II was not Sampson. He was
nine miles away. The people will not
forgive Mckinley if this iniquity
planned is consummated.
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WILSON NOTES.
Extra Session ofthe Christian 'hurch
Convention-wflson Graded ~chooi
Prize Winner.
Correspondence of The Messenger

Correspondence OF The MessehgerD
Wilson, y. G.. October %.
The state Christian convention which
was scheduled 10 close its session here
last night held a morning session TO-DAY,
owing 10 a large amount or diminished
business. The morning exercises were
devoted to n conservation service. All
delegates and visitors pledged them
selves to begin the coming years work
with renewed energies. The parting
words of some OF the visiting disciples
were very touching.
Never in the history OF Wilson has
there been so much religious zeal eN-
hibited as there has been during the
past week. h visitors have Impress
ed all as being a devoted ban Of work
ers. One Of their aims is To help the
needy in whatever position.
The following officers for the coming
wear were elected: President, Rev. j..
]. Harper, of Smithfield; vice president.
Mr.. Joseph kinsey. of Wilson; corre-
spending secretary. Rev. Il. III. Melton;
pastor of the Wilson Christian church;
recording secretary, Rev. NJ. /. Moye.
of Wilson; treasurer, Mr.. George Hack
ney. of Wilson.
Ayden was unanimously chosen as
the next meeting place OF the
ton.
There were in attendance. as shown
from the registration DOCKS Zoo Nlsltors.
The friends of Mr.. Ernest =. Man
| gum will be gratifed TO learn that the
Wilson graded schools were awarded
first prize at the state fair for free hand
work. a globe drawn by Master
George Burton. a child OF only II years
of age. won the prize. Mr.. Mangum
has raised our schools TO a very high
standard. He is acknowledged by edu-
Gators to he one OF the best superin-
tendents in the state.
Miss Della Dixon. of the Baptist fe-
male university at Raleigh, was eXain-
ined yesterday by DIR. Albert Anderson
for license to practice medicine In
North Carolina. She passed her ex-
animation very successfully.
Miss Virginia X. Tyson. with her
mother, returned today from western
North Carolina, where they have been
spending the summer. Miss Dyson Is
one OF Wilson's most popular young la
dies and she VS. welcomed home by a
hos. a- f~i.Tfr
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North Carolina has a great many old
1t has probably as many as any state
in the union of the class named.
Longevity in the Piedmont section is
noteworthy. The High Point Enter
prise mentions hat in one township
live four brothers named Spencer, all
Owe so, and the eldest in his Goth year.
and all are good citizens and IA good
health. The Asheboro Courier says
that there are many old peopl- in Ran
dolph. At a funeral recently in the
county it is said that all the pail bear
ers were over 80 years old. In our last
issue we published a notice Of the death
of an dc man 81 years old.
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DODGING THE DISPENSARN.
Selling Liquor without Liccnse-Rcd
Springs and Fayettevillea mi Foot Ball.
The Fair VIII be n Good One.
Correspondence of The Messenger

Correspondence of The Messenger
Fayetteville, n. c., October IS.
The police ave for some time suspect
ed tina liquor was being sold In the
city, in some underhand n Illicit
ly. one Of the presumptive evidences be-
ing frequent inSoxication OF the part
Of well known 'soaks'' who could not
have procured whiskey at the dispen-
saTy. The other day several arrests
were made of negroes charged with
selling liquor on the streets in half-pint
and pint bottles. and the proof against
them seems very strong. Said q citizen
to your correspondent the other day:
There are men who, bitter opponents
of the ~dispensary, have never made u
purchase inside OF it's doors, neither do
they send off for their liquor; but. for
all that, they get all they want to
drink" He declined TO go into details.
concluding with this significant re-
mark: There is more than one place
closely watched in this city. the pro-
prietors Of which may come to grief IL
they 60 not amend their ways" What
ever may be ones views OF the wisdom
or unwisdom Of liquor selling by dis
pensary, every good citizen will agree
that the law. until repeated, should be
enforced.
The teams OF Red Springs and Fay
etteville played a match game of foot
1900 - N"@~ a. ta@ a
with the result OF IL to s in favor OF
Red Springs. The home team. though
not b~ad-tempered over the matter, feel
that they have "A valid grievance I'm
that they were out-weighted, though
there had been at least an implied
promise that this would not be the case,
and that, instead OF being pitted, az
was the understanding, with the sec
n team. they were confronted with
the best Red Springs team. with three
exceptions. Red Springs full back
Tucker, weighed 155 pounds. and was
the game IN their side. They protest.
| also, against the coaching" which the
referee, Captain Short, gave his men
on the field. Fayetteville's right half
back. II. Mcneil, made a handsome
touch down.
Mr.. @. ". Lawrence, secretary OF the
Cumberland County Agricultural So
ciety, congratulates himself that, dur
ing his visit TO Raleigh last week, he
secured several unusual attractions for
the county fair next month. There will
be no lack OF amusement, though the
management are firm in their resolves
to exclude from the grounds gamblers
and other fakirs. and the band music
this year will be excellent. Besides the
regular list issued by the society. manv
valuable premiums have been offered
for special exhibits, by the business
men OF the city. The tournament ana
ball committees have met and perfect
ed their arrangements for If.sse fea
lures OF the weeks entertainment.
me messengers Dir. Crews registered
q. tne Hotei lafayette at 11:O5 this
morning. and ten minutes aftaruards
ne was on the streets hard at work.
his energy Is indomitable. ana he gets
the glad hand" wherever ha appears
IN this part Of the country. being as
! popular as the paper he represents.
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miliar with the supposed Greek dev0- |
ton to the games, and their celebration
in the finished, u~nrivalled works of
native men of genius, writers and sculp-
tors. 1t is in a an extraordinary
and yet no n could be bet
ter acquainted than Sophocles with the
views and opinions of the cultivated
A~thenians'' of his time. Still Mr.. Sy-
monds. says there can be but little
doubt from the following fragment,
taken in connection with certain hints
in Plato, that these muscular heroes Of
the hour, for whom wreaths We're
woven and breaches broker in the city
walls, struck some g~reen-eyed philoso-
pliers as the incarnation Of rowdyisn."
Surely the great tragic poet was per
fectly familiar with the exact qualities
and worth of the professors of the mas
culine art, and it is because Of this pos
sibly that his style became embittered
towards athletics, SO much the vogue in
Greece about 400 B.. c. Mr.. Symo1ds
says that such splendid beings as 4u-
tolychus, before whom the distinguish
ed guests in Xenophon's Symposium
were silenced, seemed to our poet at
best but sculptor's models, walking
statues, and at worst mere slaves of
Jaws and belly" Other early writer's
had satirized athletics. Mr.. Symords
continues his interesting examination
by saying that early in Greek litera-
ture the same relentless fight of moral
science, like the gaze of Apollonius
undoing Lamia'S chain, had been cast
upon the athletics by Xenophanes of
C~olophon,'' who lived about 600 B. G.
The extract or fragment from a lost
drama of Euripides is pointed and IL
Eliminating. II is too long to be given
here in full, fragment as it is. We con-
tent ourselves with some ines that
show how the Athenians of the more
cultured and philosophical type Were
regarding the craze" of their enamOr-
ed countrymen. He lived close to the
time of Sophocles in the first half of
the fourth century B. G. We give the
lines as translated by the deft hand of
Mr.. Symonds:
"Of all the thousand ills that pray on
Hellas.
Not one is greater than the tribe of
Athletes;
For, first, they never learn how to live
we'll,
| Nor, indeed, could they; seeing that a
man,
Slave to his jaws and belly, cannot
hope
To heap up wealth superior to his
Lustrous in youth, they lounge like
living statues
Decking the streets, but when sad OLD
age comes.
They fall and perish like a thread bare
coat.
I've often blamed the customs of US
Hellenes,
Who for the sake of such men meet to-
gether
To honor idle sport and feed our fill. =
- We therefore ought to crown
with wreaths
Men wise and good, n him who guide:
the state,
A man well-tempered, just and sounc
in counsel,
Or one who by his words averts il
deeds,
Warding off strife and warfare; foI
such things
Bring honor on the city and all Hell
leneS."
Writing from notes hurriedly taker
from Symonds's second volume, ant
not having the volume at hand we ar
not certain that there is not an error
in a statement given. If we find it 81
upon examination, we will correct mex
Sunday. We hope some of u reader;
will be interested in what we hav'
taken the trouble to give above.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-31

The Asheville Gazette was a bowling.
rampant democratic daily for Asheville.
It sold out and is now a sneaking black
and tan sheet fighting the amendment
and believing for the Pritchard gang.
Chairman Simmons has written a letter
in which he exposes this ~traitorous,
truculent sheet. We will refer to it
more at length in the next issue of the
Messenger.
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Higher education advances. The un-
iversity Of North Carolina is anxious to
push on the car of education as high up
as Massachusetts To that end ii de-
sires to send its foot ball team there to
educate. They need something Of
southern education in that favored Sec
ton. We have seen tfat often within
the last forty years.
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Jeter Pritchard is disturbed and riled
over that report that he controls fed
eral courts at will. He is hunting the
author. 1t was very damaging, and if
"A Winston dispatch says that an inves-
tigation will be held. If the report is
unjust and slanderous it should be ex-
posed. If it is true it should expose
Jeter to severest criticism and con-
tempt.
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North Carolina Inills were otherwise
managed. Does the statement hold
true generally. The charge was made
in urging the necessity Of technical ed
ueation. and the ignorance and incapac-
ity of southern men were held up in be-
half of the
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-31

There are now LOO adherents to Nor
monism in Illinois, Missouri, Iowa,
Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Mime
sofa, the Dakotas and Nebraska. There
are 222 missionaries at work in those
statesAong time ago they were driv-
en- pell-mell out of Illinois. Now there
are 80 Mormon elders at work in that
state, and they report $50 converts.
These emissaries of lust are certainly
bold, and brave too, We may believe.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-31

That negro preacher Barrett in
Arson county is a some what risky and
ingenious rascal. He is the coon"
who has beeen making doctors of Di-
vinity, ETC., of negroes for a considera-
ton. He ought to be invited to pack
and take up his abode in the north.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-31

AFR. Henry Farquhar of the depart
ment Of Agriculture Is trying his hand
at guessing for 1900. He puts the popu-
lation at between 75.0Oo.o 900 and 7s,ooO.-
600.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-31

We noticed some days ago a state
ment in some outside paper hat near
ly all of the cotton mills in the south
were superintendent by northern mill
men. Is this a correct statement? We
had thought that nearly all of the
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-31

The papers and their correspondents
are discussing the States i~nhumanity
to the negroes in the p~enitentiary. 1t
is an offence and a sin that need to be
quickly remedied.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-31

Even in the eastern counties very
aged people live. Since we have been a
resident here there have been deaths of
good citizens from s. to 103. Several
have died within three years or so at
SS. 80 and go.
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You Trv II.

If Shiloh's Cough and Consumption
Cure, which is sold for the small price
Of 25 cts, so cts. and s1-0o. does not cure
take the bottle back and We will refund
your money. Sold for over fifty years
on his guarantee. Drice % cts. and
"a cts. For sale by r. r Bethany.
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And thou, 9 Spirit, freely given,
Thyself reveal. So far is heaven,
So near this world. Light thou my
way
With thy pure presence. FOR Inls DAY,
Lest wi spread for me a snare,
Make thou, my every thought a
prayer.
MARY s. ROBINSON.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-31

The excellent gentleman who so ably
and successfully presides over Wake
Forest college, Rev. DR.. Charles E.
Taylor, has this paragraph in one of his
productions. that deserves to be copied
and indorsed:
There are in North Carolina latent
scientists, statesmen, authors. Perhaps
some of them are in your neighborhood.
Help to discover them"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-31
A Soldier at Key West Dies OF yellow
Fever.

Washington, October 27.-Surgeon
General Sternberg Of the army has re-
ceived a dispatch from Key West in
forming him that Private William
Gundeii. battery Z. First artillery, died
this morning OF yellow fever Win
black vomft- Gundell was one of the
small detachment left tc guard govern
ment property.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-31

The Messenger referred recently to
the extraordinary estimates Of popula-
ton in b United States made by Mr..
Elkanah Watson in the decades begin
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RELIGIOUS EDITORIAL FOR sun
DAY.

None Of them can by any re-
deem his .other, nor give to roc a
ransom 20 aim.
Psalm Al: Z.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-31

To cure IA Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the none - it
fails to cure. z. w. Groves signature
is on each box. BIC.
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The Messengers editorial on Wes-
tern North Carolina and what Bishop
Atkinson said, still travels but is cred
tied to n. c.. Baptist.
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HOME FOLKS.

Hurrah for Wilmington! 1t is the
fifth cotton port in Uncle Sans great
empire.
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ming with 1920 and ending with 1850.
His guesses were marvellous We ap-
pend them:
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x M 90 II hSCkifLJo>,
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" 'i.MINEf ON. \. e.

TUESDAY, OCT. 81, 1899.
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MARY s. ROBINSON.