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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-22
THE DIFFFRE>CE is MOST
M>RkED

If negroes think the north loves them
they are deceived. Events "up there
show how hypocritical and false is
their pretense of deep friendship and
interest in them beyond 1.-The make po-
litically. One of the bitter sheets
in the northwest against the southern
people is the Chicago Inter Ocean. The
other day it printed this dispatch from
Rockford, Illinois. 1t is not the first
time, but the second that negroes have
been warred upon:
Mayor Brown Chief of Police
Bergen have arranged for transporta-
ton to the south of the big gang of ne
grOeS who came here to work with a
railroad ballasting crew and has been
On the city's hands for several days.
The colOred men will probably leave to-
morrow. The c%OrOner's jury Saturday
will resume the investigation into the
deaths of Miles Lee and and George
Woodward, the negroes who were
killed"
Now up there they will not let ne
groes work, but if they come in a gang
and propose to work they are warred
upon, shot to death, and driven out.
There is a real difference between the
'outrages' of the two sections. In the
south genuine brutes, outside of the
pale of humanity, are warred upon with
rifles and shot guns. Wives and daugh-
ters, sisters and little children are to be
saved and protected at every cost.
But you do not hear of wars against
Industrious, peaceable, sober blacks OF
colored citizens when they ply their in
dustries or seek to make honest livings
Who yer heard in all this southland OF
one decent colOred or black nan being
Houston (Texas) Post draws this diff
ference in the conditions of the two
sections:
I'm the south the negro is enied
social equality with the whites but is
! given full opportunity in all depart
ments of labor for which he is fitted
working side by side with the white
man. In the north he is given a few
social privileges denied him in the
south, but is ~ostracized by the labor
unions n embarrassed in every eff
fort to make a living. If he ever
achieves In industrial success it must
be done in the south and not in the
north. The sentimental regard for the
brother in black which so often crops
out in high-sounding resolutions in the
north, does not feed nor clothe him-the
'substantials' he must obtain from thu
southern PEOPLE.
Zone thing is becoming apparent
however-these frequent 'outrageS
o h negro in the north are having
the effect of decreasing to a cOnsidera.
BILE degree the northern newspaper
criticism of the south's relations will
the negro"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-22

within two years more trusts have
been organized h a in the previous his
tory of the country and the people now
come face to face with this question:
Is the trust a blessing or a curse? II
a curse, what remedy can be applied to
the curse?
Monopoly in private hands is indie
feasible from any standpoint and in
tolerable. I do not divide monopolies.
There can be no good monopoly in pri-
vate hands until the Almighty sends us
angels to preside over US.
There may be a despot who is better
than another despot, but there is no
good despotism. The defense of the
monopoly is always placed on the
ground that if you will allow people to
control the market and fix the price
they will be good to the people who
purchase of them. The entire defense
Of h trusts rests upon a mon argu-
ment. Lincoln was right.
Whenever you put capital on an equal
footing with labor, or above labor in
the structure of government, you are
on the road to aid a government that
retsts not on reason but on force.
But what is the alternative? Sit
down and do nothing? Allow them to
trample upon o and ride rough-shod
I'VE you, and then thank God that you
still have some life left? Is that the
only remedy?
THE American people are entitled to
the best that there is. (Applause.)
They are entitled to the best system on
every subject. l believe that when
these questions are presented to the
American people they will select and
secure the best system. l don believe
it necessary for US to sit down quietly
n permit a great aggregation of
wealth to strangle every competitor. l
do not believe that it is in accordance
with our dignity as a people,, or in ac-
cordance with the rights of the people
to say, because a great corporation is
organized hat therefore it hould be
permitted to go into the field of a new
corporation, undersell it until it bank
rupts it, raising the money by higher
prices somewhere else. I don think it
necessary for US to do that"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-22
more wonderful. We copy from the

mor wonderful. We copy from the
Spectators accouat-
While among the mountains he and
his msn. Notwithstanding great expo
sure, caught a cold They eveo
visited native villages withou: doing
so Blu One they ans down % a VIII
lage where there was a small European
settlement having communication with
the outside ~world-one white man had
come UP three days prevfously-here
Conway and his men al. without ex-
ception, took bad colds, which develop
ed, he thinks. IN about a couple OF
days"
There il much other instructive mat
ter given, but we come TO the conciu-
sion Of the wholNthe theory derived
from all that is tod. The Spectator
says, and il il for men OF science 10 de-
ternine its accuracy Of conclusion:
"All this evidence Seem 20 force US
TO the conclusion that a cold Is a speci-
fic infectious disease, and that without
the possibility OF infection il Is impos-
Sible TO catch it That is TO say. hat IL
Is due 10 4 micro-organism. and that
without the presence Of this micro
organism the disease nno be con-
tracted. be the exposure what Ii may.
What is the bearing of This belief? Is
il OF any importance 10 us, II true IL
be, 10 recognize its TRUTH"
The late eminent Doctor Austin
Flint, of New York city, in a paper We
read four or five years & from his
pen. held uhat the discoveries in chem
istry We're so great, 50 marvellous, and
the in medicine so pronounced.
tina in a few years the function OF
the doctor might be changed altogeVh-
er, from curing TO preventing disease.
So it may come TO pass, as is suggested
by the able and scholarly London
weekly We have copied from, that a bac
terioligiss may discover hostile mi
crobo and track him TO his lair
and will then be able TO show how
colds can be avoided altogether. Speed
the day, We have thought and still
believe that colds with nos people
are produced by exposure, drauShts,
dampness. insufficient clothing and
reckless Indifference and hazardous ad
venture.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-22
CARTOONS

The st. Louis Republic has a good
one A miserably looking steed, all
bones, is standing before the Admins
tration Stables" 1t is marked &c. O.
P" One of it's hind feet is heavily
bandaged with philippine War The
ace track hardly, and presidential
Race for 1900 is in letters above the
race stand. Hanna stands in front-of
immense size-pointing with his thumb
at the horse. The jockey in the saddle
is Willie Nc. Behind Hanna is a big
old scamp-looking fellow marked
Trusts" At his side stands a soldier
with hat marked "~ImperiaIist.' I'm
derneath IS this-Hanna: The nag is
pretty we'll stove up-And if We lose
the race we part with a stack Of COIN
The Boston Herald has a picture that
takes us to the Philippines. a big bird
marked "Aguinaldo'' is standing amid
the reeds of the swamp. A big rope is
stretched from two trees. and a big ape
C"Otis') is swung from it, and he is
stretching out with salt between his
fingers striving to put it on the tail OF
the bird. He speaks-"Just a minute
William, and I'll have him." Mckinley
stands in the rear watching anxiously
the operation.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-22
ONE DAY

In day, Atlanta Constitution OF
18th. reported the following civilizirg
items in close connection: A negro
murderer named Brooks was hanged
by the sheriff for murder at Hamilton.
Ga; a negro highway robber was
hanged at Pulaski, Va; a negro boy
was hanged at Mobile for rapfng a
white girl; negroes in Effingham coun-
ty, Georgia, tried to. hang John Brooks
for assaulting the two daughters Of
Peter Hooks, q negro, while the family
were at church. The negroes would
of the way and placed in Savannah
Jail. Henry Delegal, negro, was found
not guilty of a charge Of assaultinp a
white woman at Guyton, Ga. A dis
patch says: THE cases Of Edward and
Melinda Delegal, charged with being
accessories to the murder of Sheriff
Townsend, were begun this afternoon.
These are the last of the Darien riot
cases"
1t Triton, Ga, an inquest over Ed.
Henderson's body, who was lynched,
and the verdict was he came to his
death al hands OF unknown parties. A
dispatch from Triton says
THE negroes have moved their fam
lilies from Ty Ty, and only one or two
old, trusty colored men, with their fam
lilies, remain near the village.
Several alarms have been sent to
Triton Of a feared uprising, but a care
full patrol of the surrounding country
for five miles fails to reveal a single
negro.
The Albany authorities refuse to
e the negro arrested there on sus-
picion of being one of the rapists to Ty
Ty for Identification"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-22

A long article in the New York Her
aid tells of the discovery neal Nays
Head of a portrait of Aaron Burr's
beautiful daughter, Theodosia, who
married Governor Aston, of South
Carolina, and who vas drowned by pi-
rates at sea as she was going from
Charleston to New York. DR.. W. G..
Pool, of Pasquotank, was the discover
er. We remember him we'll as a stu
dent at the University of North Caro-
lima, in the forties. But if we are not
mistaken that portrait was found sew
eral years ago. We have some recol-
lection of writing of it when it was
first brought to light.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-22
MANS ABILITY so A ~
TREM y OLD

The capabilities Of mankind to bear
extreme cold without detriment is Won
derfuL Some year Or two g Mr..
Caspar Whitney, if we recall his name
Alright, made a journey into the frozen
regions of the great west advancing
perhaps 1900 miles beyond civilization.
He I'VE a YER interesting account Of
his experiences, and told Cf how he
slept and lived with the thermometer
thirty or forty degrees below zero, out
doors in deep nov all the time of his
protracted journey and hunting We
are reminded OF Mr.. Whitney's inter-
esting experiences as recorded in Har-
per's Magazine, We believe it was, by
a long article in the London Spectator
ON Queer Facts About Colds" 1t tells
of some very wonderful experiences OF
Narsen, Conway and Others in the ex-
tremely cold regions. Let us quote q
really curious extract which will sur
prise many readers. 1t says:
Many people may be surprised to
hear that even in this world there are
places where it is impossible to catch
a cold, simply because there are no
colds to catch. These are facts. how
ever, which seem to prove this. For
example, hansen and his men, during
the three years which they spent in the
arctic regions. never caught a cold.
Yet they were exposed to cold, fatigue
and wet TO a degree which We at home
can hardly realize. Especially one re-
members how hansen and his comrade
Johansen, during their wonderful ex-
pedition on foot over the Polar ice,
went On, day after day, clad IN clothes
which were so saturated with parspira-
tor that they froze by day into one
, solid mass of ice, and even cut into the
flesh; o every night, when they
tucked themselves up in their sleeping
bags. the first hour was spent in thaw-
ing; how they lay shivering, ther
frozen socks spread across their chests,
. until their clothes gradually became
| Wet and soft and eventually comforta-
F, BILE and warm It was indeed a damp
! bed TO sleep in Yet they caught
| a cold; and, mark this, for II Is very
| important, with the exception OF Nam
sens brief attack OF lumbago, his
/ health did not suffer in any way TOT
| exposure"
Sir Martin Conway had strange ex-
| periences when exploring Spitzbergen
! for two months. He and four COM
| panions were exposed TO great priva-
| lions, being almost always wet and
! forced to sleep in their clothing and We:
their health never suffered as cold as
IT was. But when they got INTO some
! thing warmer regions, where mksl were
J living, he and companions al had de-
/ yeloped violent colds. In the great
. Himalayas as his experiences were even
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-22

A correspondent from Durham, to Gen.
julie Cars nomination for the United
States senate is believed to be nearly
certain" He writes tina ''the people
in the state at large have picked him
out to represent the rehabilitated democ
rae of the Old North State" There is
n doubt of his having a strong,folIow-
ing, probably much stronger than that
of any other aspirant. He isl a very
popular as we'll as a very generous
a The Times published a gold like
ness of General Carr along with the let
ter. The special says and it is very
hopeful:
1T is a foregone conclusion that in
h next election the state will be re-
deemed from the party which is re-
spOnsible for the critical condition Of
the penitentiary, the agricultural and
mechanical college, and other state in
situations; that the amendments to the
constitution will pass; that the machine
in all parties will be Ousted by the tax
paying masses, n hat hereafter
North Carolina will be under the con-
troll of the democratic party"
vi beueFdI Carr personally II says:
His donations to colored churches
and colleges estop any antagonism that
from the republicans might attach to
any other democratic nominee.
with w~ell-rounded oratorical capac-
ity, a thorough knowledge Of affairs in
North Carolina and the needs of the
state, together with an exceptional exc
cutive ability, all North Carolina would
like to see this man get recognition of
his usefulness to the masses by honor
ing him to a seat in the states highest
body polite.
! ESPECIALLY do the people appreciate
his ~unbounded generosity to all lauda-
bic objects"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-22

Any kind OF government would De a.
good as the half and half thing 'hes
have I'm France now. The royalists are
a disturbing factor and France sits
over a volcano ready to discharge lava
ashes and fire all at once.
Yellow fever is in three southern
states and increasing at Key WesGi
Georgia has or had negro
military companies. They will be dis
banded and twelve white companies.
Seventeen companies might prove q
source OF danger rather than OF pro-
lection in an emergency.
About h most d~esp!cable thing in
the present administration. and there
are many d~espicable things connected
with IL. is the studied, unjust. vengeful
attempts often repeated 20 humiliats
and wound Rear Admiral schlev whose
victory at Santiago IL every Whit az
great as Dewey's at Manila. and many
intelligent people hin even greater.
The Cubans clamor for nationality
and they ought to have It. And We,
they are inferior to the Finpinos ac-
cording TO the opinion ~ many who
know both peoples.
General Harry Heth. or Vlrginia.
gallant confederate soldier. who was
liked by North Carolinians. is near the
end OF his life. Peace to him.
There is great anxiety in England
over the T-ransvaal crisis. The outlook
is alarming. but the British govern
ment can prevent war IL IL chooses 70
do SO. o Paul does not seem 70 be
much scared.
Alexandria, Va, Is TO celebrate It's
i50th anniversary soon.
Bryan is dead. bat how the great
crowd were eager 10 hear the great
w~esterner" in Chicago, and how brave
ly and ably he responded. He - in
deed a marvel 10 be such a dead
corpse"
Germany does well to be indignant
at the insult offered by France in
, spurning it's direct, positive testimony
that freed DreyfJs from all guilt II
the Germans would lick France into
shape as it did in 1901. the world
would be on its side.
The two gangs assembled at Chicago
with antagoniZing principles-for and
against trusts, met together, kissed,
Rugged and held a love feast On the
part of h anti's it should have been
a "watch-night-"
The democrats are reported "a being
rather hopeful of carrying Ohio. Their
is a great revolt among republicans
over little false McKinley's course and
his being bossed by the moral and po-
iitical leper, Mark Hanna.
Something very new. In Germany
beer loZanges are manufactured 30 a
rthlrSty fellow can carry around his
drink in his pocket. The fellows who
love the old quart mugs Will stand by
the old way.
1t is said that An obscure English
nobleman, Earl of Yarmouth, will go
on the stage He Is hungry for noto-
: riety.
China is to have postofices. Rail
roads are building into the interior.
The oldest nation Is waking ND after
four or five Thousand years OF sleep.
Both Henry Watterson and ex-Sen-
ator Blackburn say that Goebel. the
democratic candidate for governor in
Kentucky, will be elected
DR.. Gabriel e. Manigault, OF Charles
ton. a distinguished physician and adj
mirable gentleman is dead.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-22

Great expectations We're INDUCED by
h imperialiSt press over the forth
coming report of President Schurman.
Of the American Commission. He
spent months in the Philippines. He
has spoken and they are welcome 10 all
the comfort and hope they can extract
from It He insists that the great
wrongs undertaken and the unrighte-
BUSINESS perpetrated by the nation must
be carried on until thu enemy is con-
quered. His plea for this L. national
honor and obligation" That reads like
a page from the infamous Dreyfls trial
The rascals who prosecuted him prated
of the honor Of the army and the
glory OF Franco The Charleston News
and Courier thus puts the plea:
In other words having coerced Spain
into bartering away the liberty OF mil
lions Of people, We will be recreant 10
the trust thus acquired unless We make
good purchase by fire and sword,
despite the pleas and protests Of the
unhappy persons who were subjects of
the contract. II Professor Schurman
a ltss honest mar his defence of
our present Philippine policy would
doubtless have been much stronger
than IL Is"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-22

Judge G. d. Clark, OF the United
States court, In session at Knoxville,
d~enounces vigorously the pension rob-
bers. and they well deserve IL. There
are local pension attorneys there tina
are stirred up. He denounced the pen
sion attorneys as members Of a trade
tn which so much ia done TO aid hon
orable and worthy soldiers az TO put
upon the government payrolls and cause
70 be supported the grossest kind OF
frauds. He referred TO recent expo
sures Of pension frauds made before hs
court at Nashville, saying, in some In
stances, transactions brought 10 light
We're a disgrace 10 civilization n that
IL Is doubtful II any well manage gov
eminent suffers such a burden OF lrand
as the people are being oppressed oy
aSo OF the abuse OF the govTnments
justly liberal disposition to disabled
soldiers and their families * VIII De
a happy day when the Law shall estab-
fish commissions n ELIMINATE a
vocation Of thu pension attorneys
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-22
Dun's Review gives a glowing

Dun's Review gives a glowing ,.
OF prosperity. August CONNIE. 60 beat
all other months. The excess Of 'ex-
ports owe imports gives fair promise
of as large a balance in foreign trade
20 the benefit of this country during the
winter as has ever been seen. That
manufactured exports do not fall off,
but are larger than ever, Is both sur
prising and gratifying" Railroad earn
fngs heavy and much increased. The
grain movement is great, but wheat In
One-puarter Of a cent lower. Boot and
shoe shipments large, but no so large
as in 1897. Prices have advanced as
far as the market will bear. Prices for
woolens stiff. Failures for last week
149 against ia last year. The south
had 3S against 80 the week before and
As in 1898.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-22

Mr.. F. c. Robbins, an able lawyer of
Lexington, is out in a paper in review
Of circulars sent out from Nashville,
Tenn, attempting to white wash Bar
bee and Smith, the two agents who dis
graced the Southern Methodist church
in the Publishing House Claim MI.
Robbins cannot be answered It is the
protest Of a strong, honest sincere
Methodist layman against a great
crime, and the fellows who perpetrated
it should be punished. Mr. Robbins's
paper appears in the Raleigh News and
Observer of 10th inst 1t should be
generally read. The regular church
papers would not publish. Mr.. Rob
bins is severe but it is the severity of
truth and of testimony.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-22
The fse.t Prescription for ChiiIs

and Fever is a bottle of Groves Taste
less Chill Tonic. The formula Is plain
ly printed on each bottle, showing tina:
it is simply Iron n Quinine in a taste
less form. Imitators do not advertise
their formula because II they did they
know that you would not buy their
medicine. Be sure then that you get
Groves, as the formula shows what
you are taking.
NO CURE NO PAY. Price SO cents.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-22

Rev. DR.. W. S. Lacy is at Clifton
Springs, n. Y. One account represents
him a. unconscious and near his death.
There is another account that is more
favorable. Which is later and more re-
liable we do not know. We sincerely
hope he will recover.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-22

Dam Russell is said to be coveting
the empty honor of being nominated
by the ratified gang in the minority for
the United States ssnat If any man
of the gang is to be nominated to sue
ceed Butler it is Dan, fer he has as lit
tie real political consistency and gen
uine political principles as Butler has,
and is only surpassed by the great
ground and lofty tuEnbler in the politi-
cal circus ring, o. Dockery, the very
hungry and completely played out"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-22

The first six months of the year were
marked in North Carolina by the pro-
jecting or beginning of thirty-three
textile mills. Of these 26 were cotton,
1 wooden, 3 knitting and 8 some other
kind.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-22

A northern Presbyterian minister
Rev. L. VI Stevens, writes 10 the north
ern Presbyterian Banner in a kind and
appreciative spirit, in happy contrast
with other northern writers who come
into the south He writes from the
North Carolina mountain section. We
make a quotation, but all IS readable:
"A well-built carriage road I'D the
valley and through the mountains.
takes one from this place 10 Sapphire,
which is coming 10 have a reputation
as OF the mos beautiful and de-
sirable resorts in the country A Pitts
burg syndicate, which owns a large
tract, is spending much money IN its
development. Magnificent views, a
wall two miles in length and eighteen
hundred feet sheer drop. the highest
perpendicular face east Of the Mississip-
pit lakes. drives, fishing, etc, are well
calculated TO make che willing 10 take
the journey of tw~enty-Seven miles. 1
confess 10 a feeling that | should like
to see this country a few years later.
All along this valley, new buildings
appear and the evidences Of rapid i'm
provement are many. Most Of those
from abroad who have built summer
residences are from the cities of the
southern coast Near Hendersonyille
is a settlement known as Flat Rock,
where wealthy people from Charleston
have for years been making and
adjoining homes, situated on slightly
spurs or points, from which the finest
of prospects are found When the
Pennsylvania railroad shall be extend
ed and it will be as easy to reach the
Sapphire region as it is to be landed
at these now accessible points, there
will doubtless be a large immigration
Of those who seek relief from the swell
tering heats of the lower countries
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-22

doing business for eight years. 1t is
prospecting we'll, and it is a good and
serviceable paper for Haywood county
and that section.