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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-23

It is noticeable that the republican
papers are not silent as to McKinley's
unfaithful course as to civil service.
He is censured by many stalwart pa
pers of his party and justly. Secre-
tary Gage, as we have shown, has I'M
dertaken to defend McKinley's mex
cusable attitude, and his surprising for
getfulness of all his pledges. Gage has
been lauded by gold organs for his wis
dom and ability in fighting bimetallism.
But as a defender of McKinley's course,
as an enemy of civil service he is dis
counted and ven repudiated by repub-
lican organs of standing. The Chica-
go Tribune, is one of the leading Or
gans of republicanism in the west. 1t
exposes Cages sophistry and rejects
his authority. We quote a little Of
what is said:
Secretary Gage has disappointed
the just expectations of his friends and
gratified his enemies by his attitude
towards the presidents civil-service ex-
emption order. He had always been
known as an ardent civil-service re-
former. + = Mr.. Gage has under
taken to defend the exemption order.
His defence is superficial. 1t scratches
the surface of the subject. It's sophis-
try is not convincing nor ever plIusi-
BILE. Mr.. Gage is too apt to ask people
to accept his statements only because
he makes them. People in these days
do not accept things on authority. Mr..
Cages authority, especially since his
support of this order, goes no further
than that Of any other nan of intelli-
gence and supposed integrity"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-23
THE NORTH CAROLINA PRESS.

The MOrganton Herald COPIED n para
graph from the Messenger relative to
the vigorous fight made by the demo-
cratic press last year and it's purpose
to repeat it in 1902 1t then adds.
True you are in vouch;ng fer the
press and its work next year. The
Scottish cross of fire never reader woke
the clansmen thar does the call of the
state chairman upon the state press.
It is not pleasant to edd as a postscript
that the urited press after election find
themselves unable tC pass a libel Law
in their interest OF ito secure the cleo
ton of n of their number. to so petty
a place as state libra rian. But they are
good draught horses for all that, and
keep their Wfthers unWrung by little
things like those mentioned. On the
whole your North Carolina editor is a
man Cf bigger soul than he passes for
with the politicians. His trouble is that
he undervalues himself"
We have known editors in North
Carolina to serve then party for a life
time and never draw a cent from the
public treasury. There are some still
living who have stood faithful in the
midst of the faithless, unawed and I'M
seduced, who never had any kind of
office and never wanted any, They
have stood by the democratic party
under defeat, and when victory
crowned it with hope and rejoicing,
and have in ten or fifteen campaigns
worked with all zeal and energy and
ability they could command for the
great party of the people, without
eward or hope of reward. An en-
lightened, faithful, genuinely demo-
cratic press is indeed the hope of the
people, for it is the unfaltering and
honest friend of the people-the SOW
ereigns. 1t has Argus-eyes and Bril-
arian arms.
This Argus DER the peoples rights
doth an eternal vigil keep;
May no soothing sound of Maia's harp
luIl his ndr eyes to Sleep"
We quote from memory and are I'M
certain as to its correctness as given.
You can alter to suit. A free, untram-
melled, faithful press alone can keep
pure the government and shield the
people from abuses, usurpatious and
expressions. When ever little bob-tail
~judges-state or federal-begin to crack
their whips over the people, and to
threaten editors with Imprisonment for
daring to criticize their vicious, partisan
conduct, their general bad behavior and
indecencies, you may get ready for the
reproduction on a smaller scale of the
performances of Lord Jeffreys of the
Bloody Asize," and the most infamous
of judges. Then the rifles will be seen
around. But there is a trend to usurpa-
ton. of high-handed procedures, and of
constant inroads upon the muniments
OF freedom, and the rights of states,
and the protection of the people. De-
prive publishers of the right to print:
take from the editors by intimidation
the right to speak out clearly and with
out restraint and you will see Tyranny
soon putting gyoes upon the wrists of
the people and the doors of the Temple
Of Liberty forever closed.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-23
Can Use Any Sort of Gunpowder

London. June 20.-The correspondent
Of The Times at The Hague, says:
During the debate in the sub-commit-
tee on the use of different gun pow
ders, Captain Crozier, of the Ameri-
can delegation. pointed out that a
prohibition of the use of gunpowders
of greater explosive power than those
now employed, might prove to be in
consistent with one Of the objects Of
the Russian proposal: Name, economy.
Thereupon entire freedom TO use new
sorts Of gunpowder was carried unani-
mousely.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-23

Before the industrial commission II.
o. Havemeyer appeared. He is the big
sugar man who enjoys such big re-
turns from the giant protective tariff
tax. He surprised the country and the
greedy trust magnates when he declar-
ed that the mother Of all Trusts is
the customs-tariff BILL" Then he pro-
ceeded to show how it has worked.
"The existing bill and the preceding
ones" he said, have been the occa-
sion of the formation Of all the large
trusts, with very few exceptions, mas
much as they provide for an inordinate
protection to all the interests of the
country-sugar-refining excepted" The
Dingley bill is both daddy and NANNY
of the trusts and Of the sugar mon
ster included. Havemeyer talked out
in meeting and his plain talk might be
repeated with benefit to many-perhaps
to the country at large. We give a
few of his words of wisdom"
"The tariff bill clutches the people
by the throat, and then the governors
and the attorney-generals Of the sew
eral states take action, not against the
cause, but against the machinery which
the people employ to rifle the public's
pockets.
There appears to be in the public
mind a distinction between robbery by
an individual and that by a corpora
ton. What is commendable in an in
dividual appears to be dishonest in a
corporation.
at is the government, through its
tariff laws, which plumbers the people,
and the trusts, etc., are merely the ma
chinery for doing it,"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-23

Pittsburg, Pa, June 19.-Enoch Fa-
vanoskfs young wife, Emma, and his
infant daughter, Emma, were burned
TO death today "a the result Of the ex-
plosion OF an oil can with which the
woman attempted to start a fire at
their home, No. q South Thirteenth
street, Southside. The husband was SO
badly burned in trying to save his
family that he will be confined to the
hospital for some time.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-23
Rockingham Anglo-SaXon:

Rockingham Anglo-Saxon: There
was a little mad dog scare here a few
days ago. Several persons were bit
ten by a dog which some supposed to
be mad. DR.. Steele's mad stone was
applied to each of the bites, but it adj
hered to none of them except that of
Mrs. John p. Cameron, who was bit
ten on a finger, to which it adhered for
more than an hour.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-23

The peace and safety of this city de-
pend to no little extent upon keeping
the banished fire brands away for all
time. If they are permitted to return
the revolution will have TO be fought
over for these stirrers-up Of strife will
have serious personal grievances to
keep warm and they will be emissaries
Of evil and only evil. It is best for them
and for the welfare of the negroes n
for the quiet and order of this commun-
ty that G.. Il. French, and the other
dfsturbers and enemies of the people
should spend their years in some other
place, as they have already left peace
behind after leaving their country for
their country's sake" They would be
wise to abandon all hope or purpose to
become again denizens of this particu-
lar bailiwick. A hin to the wise should
be sufficient. Fish for cod, jump the
cataract of Niagara, play with dyna-
mite, ride a streak of lightning, bestride
a tornado, comb a lions name, visit
the inside of a careering whale or be
shot from a great modern gun. but do
not come to Wilmir yton.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-23

'the modern small bore rife has not
sufficient stopping power when used
against avages Seemingly more In
sensible 20 pain than civilized mer.
they will be shot through with a small
bullet and continue to advance.
IL civilization Is to control barbarism
either a gun Of larger calibre or the
ffattened bullet is necessary"
IF civilization is to upiift barbarism.
# is evidently true that it must purge
out of its religious faith all such wick
edness masquerading under the name
of christianity as this"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-23

They do not expect to get Maine and
Massachusetts,. Then there are many
delegates who will not be instructed.
Mr.. Edwards says that the anti
Bryanites do not expect to be able to
control all uninstructed delegates, but
if they can succeed in having so many
uninstructed they are confident they
can control enough of them one way
or another to break up the Bryan COM
bination.
"They are not combining their efforts
70 these states. They are planning for
an effort in nearly every state in the
union to prevent instructions. The
democratic national convention con-
sists of $50 delegates. The anti-Bryan
people expect more than half of them
to be u~ninstructed, and believe that
they can control nearly 400 of them, il
their plans do not miscarry."
The states that will send uninstruct-
ed delegates will count 262 votes. The
~+,tac included ara these.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-23
HOME FOLKS.

The Charlotte Presbyterian Standard,
referring to Rev. DR.. Hoge's removal
to take charge Of Warren Memorial
church, Louisville, KY, says that "our
assembly will lose one of its most dis
tinguished ministers and III synod one
of its wisest and most progressive pres
byters."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-23

The degree of LII. D. was conferred
upon Mr.. Walter H. Page, the gifted
editor of the Atlanta Monthly, of Bos-
ton, by Randolph Macon College, Va,
(Methodist) at it's recent commence
ment. Mr.. Page is a native North Car
Gilman and a former student Of that
college. He is entitled to literary her
OrS.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-23

When I say I cure I do not mean merely to
stop them for a time and then have them re-
turn again. I mean a radical cure. have made
the disease of FITS, EPILEPSY or FALLING
SICKNESS a lifelong study. Warrant my
remedy to cure the worst cases. Because
Others have failed is no reason for not now
receiving a cure. NSend at once for a trfatise
and a Free Bottle of my infalible rehedy.
Give Express and Post Office.
Prof W.H.PEEKE F.D., 4Cedar ~
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-23

Greensboro Telegram: DR.. William
Albright, aged 60 years, died yesterday
evening at his home three miles north
of this city. Deceased was one of the
county's most highly respected and in
huential citizens, and leaves six chill
dren to mourn his death.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-23

But will Alabama, Georgia, West
Virginia and Indiana be caught KNAPP
ping? 1t will be seen. That there is
a cunning hand pulling the strings
against the regular democrats is doubt
less so.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-23
'Ghe Messengrr.
A moyEmENT TO DEFEAT BRYAN.

There is a movement on foot that
quiet, aggressive, and may give trouble
unless it is checkmated. 1t is to pre-
vent Bryan's nomination in 1900. The
enemies of Bryan-the men of both
parties who in 1896, helped to elect
Mckinley and perhaps prefer him
again with all of his record of treach-
cry and incapacity-are wide-awake
and are carefully plotting to disappoint
his supporters, and to put in nom1na-
ton some pronounced goldbug. Let
tiers from Washington show that this
campaign by stealth is actively on al
though the public is nc well informed
as to the plan. They are trying to per-
suade Downeasters that Gorman is the
man, that he can carry the eastern
states and New York. Mr.. c. E. Ed
wards. the able staff correspondent at
Washington of the Houston (Texts)
Post, writing of this hidden scheme to
deceive and capture, says this:
'They have pleaded Germans regu-
larity in the last campaign and that he
stood up to both the candidate and the
platform. Their work has been care
full, insidious and well done. They
have grabbed off a whole lot of people
to their way of thinking who have
given their friends a paralyzing sur
prise by some of their recent utter
ances. This element has some hopes
of success by the attention they are
giving to their work. On account of
the goldbug mixture in the mess h
work has to be very quiet and very
secret, and because it has been done
under cover so far, accounts for the
reason that it has made no more noise
And yet recent developments plainly
show hat the regular democrats pre-
fer Bryan to any other man. The
opinions just given out of the National
Democratic Committee reveal clearly
enough the convictions Of the mem
bers that Bryan is the man to lead in
1900, and that silver will be to the
front again. The game is to surprise the
Bryan supporters, to control the nom1-
mating I invention by first controlling a
majority of the delegates. 1t is thought
IN Washington that some Roadway has
been ever made in the south in demon
1alizing democrats, and thus to pave the
way to the securing of some anti-Bryan
delegates. This accounts for the utter
.ances Of some few hitherto conspicuous
democrats who supported Bryan, but
who are now talking of sacrificing
the party for a sentiment, etc. The
thing to be done is to put no man on
guard who is not now, and has not been
all along, a genuine, simon pure dem
sOcrat who is for bimetallism, against
a protective robber tariff, against the
~villainous oppressive trusts, against
destroying and overriding the consti-
tuition, against Capitalization, expan-
sion, militarism, the empire and all
other internal dogmas that mean in the
end destruction.
Bankhead, of Alabama, who would
like to be nominated for speaker, is
talking in a very doubtful, suspicious
way. He will do to watch as we'll as
many others. The anti-Bryan men
count on delegates from
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-23

Sanford Express! Two Mormon eld-
e-s struck town yesterday morning and
made a house ito house canvass. dis
tributing 4 NeiV literature.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-23

| zen has the door to the cabin and this
| door we a hold up as a shield
against the assaults of all Scoffers and
! unbelievers who may come against US.
Charlotte Observer.
DR.. Kilgo who is remembered as a
scrapper of some distinction also spoke
It was at Trinity college last week,
| and the learned doctor delivered the
tobaccolaureate address. He is report
ed as having said that the reason
North Carolina has never produced a
| great man like Washington, Clay or
Webster is that the socialistic spirit Is
| too strong here" This divine should
| not have waited so long TO tell US about
this thing. Here we poor, plodding
North Carolinans have been moving
along our respective beaten paths for
generations, deluding ourselves with
the belief hat the Old North State was
doing fairly. II is true that North Car
DINA has not produced a Kilgo or even
a Washington, but the people think
their beloved commonwealth has done
very well. Notwithstanding! She has
gone IN year by year giving 10 the
world sturdy men and splendid women
"a race OF folks that will average with
those Of any state. Far better is IL to
have such a people as this than to have
a population in which one Of these big
fellows would shine forth gloriously
because OF his Observation-Disclosures
in Asheville Citizen
Kinston Free Press: About 900 peo-
pie were in attendance at the Teach
ers' Assembly at Morehead City yes
terday.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-05-03

till they make but small growth in
one season. Don't cultivate the land.
Then fertilize with phosphOric acid
and potash (no nitrOgen); kainit and
acid are good forms. Apply broadcast
500 pounds of each to the acre. Less
will do good. More will do more good.
Plow 1T in lightly, say three or four
inches. This should be done in the
uary Is. If done earlier vegetation is
too strong in the way. If done later
there is danger of causing the trees to
bloom too early. In May give the Or
chard another cultivation most advan-
tageously done with cutaway har-
row, blowing about the same depth as
before. The season following give the
same fertilizers and same plOwings.
If trees are rather vigorous, leave off
the May blowing.
When you have starved out the
blight and have gotten your trees to
where they make but d small growth
annually, which will be just before
you commence the fertiliZing and
blowing described above, then is the
time to prune, prune, prune. Don't
prune with a knife. nor shears, but
with saw. Saw off the worst blight
ed limbs, the struggling limbs, the chat
ing limbs, and the very tall limbs cut
them half in two, reducing the tree to
nearly One-half. Apply your kainit
and acid annually; give the orchard
two plOwings, never plant peas, beg
garweed, nor turn under a heavy crop
of any vegetable growth.
Then count blight blessing for you
will have studied the requirements Of
pear trees and given them their needs
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-05-03

bition, or money, or pride.
But men are slow to believe that over
work sometimes kills; man hates to adj
NIT that his health ever needs any particu-
lar care He feels miserable ard "out of
sorts' but tries to bluff it off until he
gets fat on his back, unable to do stroke
of work He becomes obliged to spend no
end of money for doctors and even at that
can hardly save his life.
How much more sensible, and in the end
how much cheaper at the first signs of ply
steal weakness to write to DR.. R. V. Pierce,
chief consulting physician of the Invalids'
Hotel and Surgical Institute, of Buffalo,
n Y, and obtain, free of charge, the ad-
vice of a skilled and educated physician
who has a wider reputation for the success
full treatment of chronic diseases than any
other physician in this country.
In letter to DR.. Pierce, Mr.. J. w Brittin. of
Clinton Dewitt Co., Ills (P. o. Box 47S). writes:
"For over a year I was troubled with liver COM
plant Had no appetite, could keep nothing
on nv stomach. and had severe pains in my
stomach and bowels. I doctored with home
doctors but did not obtain relief until friend
advised me to take DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery. I began taking it at once and after
taking four bottles think myself cured, as
can eat anything I want and my food never
hurts me-"
DR.. P;erce's Pleasant Pellets cure consti-
patton. At all medicine stores.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-05-03

DR.. Robert Norris says there is lots
of difference between the energy Of a
bushel of corn worked up into muscle
and put into crops, and the same bush
ell of corn worked up into four gallons
Of whisky.
Don't buy fodder in the extreme
South when you can grow a crop Of
beggar weed. Florida clover) in three
or four months that has more value
than any fodder you can buy.
The best is good enough till you can
find better. Seek for it and get it il
you can.
Commercial fertilizers pay a larger
profit when applied to land already pro-
ductive than on wOrnout soils.
Take care of your farm implements;
keep them in place: keep them in or
der; repair them we'll and promptly,
and add new tools. new implements,
new machinery every year. If your
land is not all you would like to haze
it, cultivate it more thoroughly. A
poor farm with geed tools in the hands
of good men is better than a rich farm
with antiQuated or WORKOUT machin-
ery.-Farm and Home.
Try the intensive and not the ex-
tensive system if you wish to increase
the product and the profit of your
farm.
Humus is the crying lack of most
wornout soils, so-called. 1t is needed
to make available the latent plant
food already there; to conserve moist
ure and to improve the mechanical
condition of the land.
Thorough filth is closely allied to
added fertility. Neither will give the
best result without the other.
Improve the land, increase the mon
eyed crops and lessen the cost, by US
ing the phosphates and potash for
growing the legumes, which will OBJ
tain from the atmosphere, free of cost,
the important and expensive element,
nitrogen.
Cheapening cost OIL production is not
less important than increasing the
product. The margin of profit is what
the farmer wants-Farm and Home.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-05-03
Nuggets.

The old way Of planting potatoes
was to eat all that were large enough
to eat and plant the others. The new
way is to plant the best and feed the
small ones to the pigs and poultry
the best way to dispose of them.
It takes just as much time to plow
the ground. plant the seeds and cult
vate the crops in a poor garden as it
does in a good one. If the garden is
half cultivated the time spent in plow-
ing and planting is wasted.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-05-03

all the cotton the world will demand
on one-half the present acreage. The
South has long enough eaten wire
grass beef. Something better is in
reach.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-05-03
Mr.. Morris on Building up the Soil.


In pursuing our observations of Mr.
Norris methods of building up the
soil, as recorded in the Farmers Voice,
we perceive that he lays great stress
On soy (sOja) beans, cOwpeas and clio
yer for soil building, in the order nam
ed. For the State of Illinois. where
the eXperin entS nave been so success
ful. the soy bean Las the preference,
but in the South tn cOwpea gives
greater production in tons of forage,
and the greater amount of nitrogen
for the soil and protein muscle form
ers) for the animal Mr.. Norris says,
had he known the value of the soy
bean and cOWpea that he would have
had a restored soil in four instead of
eight years. 1t will be noted how Mr..
Morris couples animal farming with
soil building They cannot be sepa-
rated and either done economically.
For want of space we omit the tables
as they are more applicable to north
ern grown feeds, and give the sum-
mary or conclusions. twill be wis
dom to give very close attention to the
endorsement he gives to the cowpea,
which for all practical purposes is SUI
pariOr to the clover or the soy Tor
soja) bean for the South, and to the
particular feature of the Endorsement.
to animal feeding to which we wish
to call the attention of RuraliSt read
ears.
Take cowpeas, oats and corn. They
are very nearly the same in figures,
but feed them separately to young
stock and you will find the cowpea is
the best; oats next, corn last. For
work stock, corn is the standard. Take
soy beans, cotton seed meal Oil cake
and cowpeas: note how much richer
they are in the protein element OF
feeding stuff than corn or oats. You
will note that the soy bean has more
than three times as much protein as
corn or oats; three times as much Fat
as corn or oats; less than cotton seed
meal; but the bean is more digestlble.
The soy bean having nearly seventeen
pounds of fat or oily matter gives 1T
special value as a lubricant for the
bowels. It is this easy digestion and
fat that makes the soy bean the great
est feed for the dairy COW, the brood
SOW, the breeding eve or winter egg
food we can grow on the farm. All
stock men know that timothy hay in
winter produces constipation of tho
bowels and that clover hay keeps them
in an ideal condition. Soy beans and