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Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1899-09-11

A cure suars nteed in every case undertake
when q cure 10 practicable and possible. Gonor.
rhoea elect and Structure speedily cured with
Dr. Records French Remedies. Recent cases
permanently cured within THRKE DAYS. No
Cubebs, Sandaiwood OH nor Co
patoa used.
Spermstorrhoea, Seminal Losses. Night
CURED Ricord's M ethod practieed In the Worlds
Hospital, Paris.
Reference Over $1,000 patients success
fully cured within the last ten years. Can refer
to patients cured, by permission, Investigate
once. ,--an Seventeenth Street, near
champa, Denver, Colo.
HaRiish, French, German, Polish, Russian
and Bohemian spoken.
Gone ultasa0a end Ous kxami nation. FkEk
c orreapo ndeuce enthusiastically Onadeutia
Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1899-09-11
Green SICKNESS

II rather common Aisease and IL nss With
amongst young women. 1t V caused from an
impoverished condition OF the blood Being Q
Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1899-09-11
rhilippine w.dMnr oov.,.

When a Philippine lady of better
class gets married she sometimes wears
as her wedding dress II costume Of ma
tive manufacture that reaches in value
up into four figures. y tskcs months
to make handkerchief or u sleeve,
40 microscopic and delicate Is the
fabric.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20
The Business situation.

The general business situation is not
essentially improved. At some time,
of course, the water which has been in
jected into the combines and indus
trial undertakings of various kinds
must be squeezed out. A considerable
portion OF it has been in thepast few
weeks, III there may be more in the
immediate future. Liquidation in the
stock market may, however, be over
for the time being. and ii is possible
that there may be some recovery in
prices, which nay be accelerated as
the loanable funds, which have been
diverted from h stock market 10 COM
mercial purposes and the needs Of gen.
eral business return to Wall street.
That there has bee such a lively de-
mandf for money from the interior nay
be regarded as evidence of the large
volume Of business in progress, and
that we are TO see a continuance OF a
large trade this fall The bulk of the
crop demand, however, has probably
been felt, and while rates. for money
for ordinary business viii
very likely rule higher than last year.
h situation is likely to grow easier
than of ~hate.-United States Investor.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20
STATE PRESS

We have known enterprises that
started under the most favorable conoi-
ditions to dwindle out of existence for
no other reason than hat those in con-
troll did not know the business.-Dur-
ham Herald.
AS far as politics are concerned IN
North Carolina Butler is dead duck. He
opposes the constitutional amendment
and says its unconstitutional. In a re-
cent interview he said he was some
what behind in politics, and n Jur es-
timation he is a back number in law
when he claims the amendment uDCon-
stitutional.-Fair BLUFF Times.
1t will be gratifying to the true
friends of education throughout the
! state to know that the University has
reached the largest number of stud
ents 1T has ever had and at the anne
time that it's work is in keeping with
| the best traditions of the past. Chapel
Hill is the point of chief historic inter-
est in North Carolina. Around it
clusters most of the memories and
traditions of the past. And from its
position of eminence, it must send out
in large measures h streams of in
f1uence which are to bless or to curse
the state. 1t is the business, there
fore, Of patriotic and Christian men to
know what the University is doing,
n by nuelllgenC CRITICISM, instead OF
indiscriminate and demagogic abuse,
to correct any faults, if such exist If
it should be found, for example, that
more time and attention is being given
TO athletic games, than is profitable,
| or if there seems to be official sanction
for dancing the german as well as
studying it, it is the office OF friendly
| criticism to direct attention to these
things. But I feel sure that the Uni
| versity was v more deserving of
the support and sympathy of the peo-
pie than now, and from what I can
| gather in my travels over the state.
the people, whatever instructions they
may choose to p~atronize, resent the
senseless opposition to Higher Educa-
ton in the state, and especially the po-
litical bargain of the last campaign by
which the University was sold out to
its enemies for "inhuence."-"Ramb-
Ter" in Charlotte Presbyterian Stand
| ard
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20
Great Undertaking.

A Scheme to engage the United
States government in the business of
retaining the great body of arid lands
between the Missouri river and the
Rocky mountains will certainly not go
through without opposition. 1t is al
ready urged that for the government
to add 20, 600, 900 tillable acres to the
land already in cultivation would cre-
ate competition with the present agri-
culturists, lower the price Of produce
and work untold evils. There Is no oc-
casion for alarm. The government will
never, with it's own money, reclaim TO-
000, 900 acres of land, nor LOCO, 900 acres.
1t will make surveys and measure
mentS and reports and publish many
tons of reading matter about irrigation
and the water supply from the heaverl
above and the earth beneath and the
reservoirs under the earth, but the
United States will never directly and
by its own means make any present
deserts to bloom as the rose.
Yet, without the aid of the federal
government or any other government
a great proportion of the 20, 200, 900 acres
will, in the course of a century or so.
be transformed, because man is i'm
PEELED to that sort of work by what
seems a strange fascination. He is
seldom satisfied with the fertile and
productive acres which are already his,
He wishes to reclaim or restore some
thing. The swamp that may be made
productive by the use Of its w weight
in fertilizers; the sandy plateau that
may be enriched by blowing under
green and growing vegetation-these
visions will not let the agricultural
conqueror sleep.
This indomitable and aggressive
American character. not the govern.
ment of the United States, will settle
the arid Ian question. The world has
gone out that these lands possess al
the natural elements Of fertility, and
all they lack is water, and the reply has
come back that they shall have the one
thing needful.-Kansas City Star.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20
The messenger.
THE PRESS ON BRITISH AGGBES-
SION.

The Philadelphia Ledger thinks the
British war on the Beers comes from
an "insatiate greed Of gold" So The
Messenger stated as it's own belief. In
The North American Review there is
a paper on the "Undoubted Grievances
of the South AFRICAN Republic" 1t
tells of the way these grievances are
excluded, are held back from all the
British cou of causes for war. n
Review says hat they exist, although
the absorbing selfishness of the mining
magnates keeps back the light or Day;
the lust for gold stiles all generosity
compassion, mercy, brotherly love n
respect for the rights Of the weak
The Philadelphia Record, an expan-
sion advocate, says that
the Transvaal government and its pet
monopolies are confronted by another
gang of sordid ringsters, whose aim is
TO Kimbel Ieyize the Rand gold fields
in the same manner as nave been the
diamond diggings of Bechuanaland."
We have seen that expansion tooters
condemn the Beers and jump on kru-
ger for daring to anticipate the move
ments of the British. The New York
World is of juster view n says that
''the sending of this ultimatum may
have been unwise, but it does not. take
from Great Britain any part of the obi
um Of being the aggressor. h ag-
gressor is not he who strikes the first
blow, but he who makes necessary the
first blow in self-defense."
Germany is against the British war,
and Ireland has but little sympathy, If
any, for it. Their are millions Of citi-
zens of the United States who have no
sympathy with this war of aggression
and conquest. The American League
has issued an address. Schurtz, DR..
Parkhurst, Bourke Cochran and other
prominent men belong to it. Hear what
it says to the American people:
Look at the latest manifestation OF
England's desire to spread the bless
ings of civilization! In the Transvaal,
a quiet, religious, l~aW-lOVlng people
founded homes and built a state. Until
immense mineral riches were found
there the Beers were permitted to live
in their own way, and England had no
thought of civilizing them. But dia-
monds were found near the Boer coun-
try, and English capital went there for
the profit of diamond digging. Beers,
being a pastoral people, were not at
tracted by HI riches almost within
their reach; they preferred quiet and
agricultural pursuits. But as the rich
es were in sight, the English persisted,
and finally secured from the pastoral
Beers a measure of concession in the
shape of suZerainty. Then the great
gold fields about Johannesburg were
discovered and English capital and
greed plunged in to get what they
could of them. Having appropriated
nearly all of the gold region the Eng
Iish now seek control of the Boer gov
eminent, and a war is at hand"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20

Major j. J. WesenDerger, of the First
Washington Volunteers, arrived last
Monday at San Francisco from Manila.
He has seen ten months of hard cam
paigning. He is a man of intelligence,
of courage and observation as well as
experience. He has given his views
freely of the situation out there and It
is not the administration much doc
tored view either. We give only a
glimpse of what he says:
1.-The insurgent forces are better
armed, better provisioned, and better
~intrenched today than when the rebel
lion broke out. / am sorry to have to
admit it, but our commanders have
been outgeneralled by the Filipino
leaders. The sort of campaign which is
being carried on in the islands will
never end the war. The citizens of the
United States have no idea of the diff
ficulties under which our troops labor.
+ = The American people do not real
iZe the gravity of the Philippine sftua-
ton. The entire Thirteenth regimen;
of regular infantry dropped their arms
their haversacks and their baggage,
and fled like sheep before a midnight
insurgent attack. 1t was moi the fault
of the men. We have accomplish
ed nothing after a years fighting in the
Philippines. The insurgents, led by
Aguinaldo, a natural fighter, have more
than held their own"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20
Mr.. Bryan,s Lecture Rates

There Is nothing at all d~fscreditable
to Mr.. Bryan in the dispatch we pub
1lshed yesterday setting forth that he
had not only charged the people of
Canton. H., 5000 for making an address
TO them, but that he had insisted upon
getting the money before making the
speech. II is distinctly TO his credit.
as q prudent business man, If he does
not regard il as insultingeto De Spoken
or IN that capacity. Certainly Il has
been known hat lecture COMMITTEES
nave refused or neglected to pay for
lectures after they were delivered tt
sue them h would be a painful pro.
cess. 1t might get the lecturer di1lfk
ed It would certainly subject him q
the charge Of being q +Shylock'' OF
creC4tcr who expected 10 be paid. And
ne might not get his money af.er ar
BY Tar b most prudent as wen as she
pleasan1est course IS 10 renuire paw
menf IN advance.-New York Tines.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20

ON Saturday last Rev. William S. Lacy,
ID. D., at Raleigh, passed to his reward.
His death was expected, for he had
beer long in failing health. He was a
truly gifted North Carolinian-with
fine literary taste, excellent culture, a
rare touch as a writer and very genial,
gentle, lovable and noble in character.
For thirty years we have known him,
and have held him in very high esteem
and appreciation. He was profoundly
religious, a preacher of much interest
and excellence, a wise, tactful, discreet
minister of Christ, loving his fellow
man and overlooking with the milk of
human kindness. He was born at Raj
eigh on the 25th of March, 1912, n
was, therefore, in the 5Sth year his age.
He was a son of h late able Rev.
DR.. Drury Lacy, SO long pastor of the
First Presbyterian church, Raleigh, and
also president of Davidson college. He
married Miss Mary Shepherd in 1888.
He was very much loved by his breth-
rem in the ministry. No man with his
rare combination of fine qualities could
fail to draw men to him. We have
rarely known so sweet and engaging a
spirit. We knew his honored and eX-
soellent father we'll, and was at school
with his very promising brother, Hor-
ace, and they were all of a noble breed
of manhood. His death will bring sor-
row to many a household in North
Carolina, and many a tear will be
she'd, not that he has been translated
to a higher kingdom and is at rest for
ever, but that his kindly eye shall not
beam again in love nor his vanished
hand be touched in sacred friendship
again.
He had kept
The whiteness of his soul, and thus men
DER him wept."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20

Raleigh Post. The removaI Of Rev.
DR.. c. ". Byrd. pastor OF the Ashe-
vile Central II. e. Church South. 10
the Louisville. Kentucky Conference.
is a serious loss to the church IN this
stace.
Fair Bluff Times: The irst Sunday
in October Rev J. A. Smith. the pastor.
began a series of meetings in Bear
Swamp Baptist church. He was as
sisted by e Will b. Oliver. who did
the preaching, and did IL well The
! meeting closed asst Sunday with a ire
| mendous crowd in attendance. The
| church has been greatly revived BY this
meeting. and is additions 10 h church
Il by Baptism and by restoration.
Scotland Neck Commonwealth:
Recently Mrs. c. r. White. who lives
at Wilkes ~ Roads a few miles from
town. left her two little children in the
house a few moments When she &c
| turned a hog about the yard had gone
into the house and had dragged heT
baby down the steps The child was
| not seriously hurT.-The board Of rad
supervisors for Scotland Neck township
have arranged to- work the conv!cts
on the roads around Scotland Neck
| Thirteen convicts were sent from Hail.
fax 10 the state farms in N~orthomptor
Thursday as a result OF the criminal
| court.
Weldon News: Tuesday morning
an unknown negro appeared At the
Weldon Corn Mil and informed Mr.
Frank Williams. who was in charge
that he wanted a sack Of meal and
some -four for Mr.. ". IL. Day. Mr.
Williams informed the negro that ne
could not accept verbal orders and re-
fused to deliver the So0ls. he negro
| than aid he fNrp~d 81 n haNz then,
and whipping out 4 knife pranG upon
Williams and began ID use the knife
The first lick cut Mr.. Williams Goa;
from collar dowr 10 the waist. Frank
ran into the mill and picked up a ri15
and snapped it twice at the would-be
assassin, who by this time Nas makine
tracks for the island.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20
BREVITIES.

Col. Wharton J.. Green favors pre-
senting Rear Admiral Schley with a
sword, saying that the hero of Santa
go deserves a we'll Of the country as
Dewey deserves. Every whit as
much for beyond all cavil or doubt
Santiago was as great an achievement
as Manila. We believe it surpassed it.
Mr.. Neil, of New Orleans, one Of the
professional cotton guessers, insists
that the crop of cotton will reach H.
600, 0Oe bales. We hope he is a bad
guesser.
Rev. DR.. De Costa, and eminent Epis-
copal minister, has withdrawn from his
church. He is reported as saying that
his church has taken serious depart
ure in virtually endorsing the radical
views of DR.. Briggs, and declares that
he cannot go along with it.
In Brooklyn there are 1,200, 900 people.
OF these 639, 900 who are not reached
by any of the Christian churches. In
1899 the population increased 100, 600 and
the total gain in members of churches
was 5,000-a pitiful showing that.
We are surprised to see the state
ment that there is but one southern
Presbyterian church in Washington
City. Possibly the Methodists are but
little better off.
The Union Theological Presbyterian
Seminary of Virginia, located nows in
Richmond, opened with IS students OF
divinity, and expects 100.
Mr.. Bryan gives a vast deal of trou-
bic TO his political goldbug enemies.
Now he charges for lecturing. How
shocking. If he would only lecture for
s25 a night he might be TOLERATED., but
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20

tan soldier died like a Christian hero.
We copy a part Of what he says:
Gordon did not rest his hand on the
hilt of his sword and turn bis back to
his enemies to receive his mortal
wound. Gordon drew his sword and
used it. When Gordon fell, his sword
was dripping with the blood of his as
sailants, for no less than sixteen or
seventeen did he cut down with 1t.
When Gordon fell, his boots were
slippery with the blood of the crowd
of Dervishes he Shot and hacked his
WY through, in his heroic attempt to
tut his way u and place himself at
the e of his troops. Gordon died
as Gordon could die"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20
CHOW GEN. GORDON DIED.

The readers of newspapers of fifteen
and twenty years 6 remember the
intense interest awakened by the
killing of General Chinese Gordon,
the great English soldier, who, like Sir
Henry Havelock, was a very devoted
Christian. General Gordon was killed
in Egypt, at Khartoum, by the Der
wishes. The account heretofore pub
lished of the sad tragedy was that Cor
don turned his back upon the enemy
and then quietly submitted to his cruel
fate, when the enemy mad stormed the
weak defence. Mr.. Neufeld, in his
book just out, to which there is brief
reference in our Literary Gossip
treats Of the affair with elaboration,
giving all he could gather from the
Arabs during his long confinement as
their prisoner. His account is highly
interesting and shows that the Chris
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20

The New York Sun, a cantankerous,
rabid republican organ that favor~ al
most every thing bad in politics, has
complained of the bad financiering Of
the administration-ithe incompetent,
unfair, tricky Mckinley crowd 1t
must be bad indeed when the Sun
growls over little Macs. doings. 1t
censures 'fthe paternar, financiering,
just as if that We're any more malig-
nant and immoral than republican pa
ternalismf' generally as seen in it's un-
constitutional tariff tax in favor of a
rich class. 1t complains of the order
to pay 'at once, without discount, the
interest on the public debt due Novem-
Der 1st next, amounting to about $4,-
1862, 900. The order also directs the i'm
mediate payment, at a discount of "a
per cent per annum of all the remain
ing interest falling due previous to July
1, 1900, which may be called for" Ii
says that "for the $S3, 900, 900 deposited
in national banks it gets nothing in re-
turn in the way of interest, and for its
payment of interest in advance it will
get a discount of only "a per cent. per
annum. h sort of financiering by d
private citizen or corporation would be
called foolish. What is it when per
petrated by a great nation like the Uni
ted States?" The financial doctors may
attend ito the patients at leisure.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20

The Roman Catholic Church has al
ways a~ntagonized and most properly
and righteously the whole game of de-
vorce, that has become the great Amer
lean nuisance. Bishop Potter, of New
York, has recently urged the Episcopal
Church of the United States ito forbid
any marriage of a divorced person by
any n of it's clergy. The Lutheran
church has moved also in the matter
through its Great Council. Other
churches should not wait longer to take
active steps against the unchristian
practice. But there will be no cure
until a class of Legislators in the states
are elected who believe in the Bible as
the standard of all morality.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20
BRYt Wand REED ON THE PHILIP.
PINES.

Willim j. Bryan is as wise, well-bal-
anced a politician as this country has
today. He is of wonderful intellectual
resource and excellent judgment. He
is not one of your cock-sure"infallibles''
like his critics and enemies assume to
be, bue he is a man Of sagacity and wis
dom. From a recent interview we take
h following as his opinion of what
hould be done on the p~erplexing Phil
ippine question. He said:
NO, 1 do not favor the withdrawal
OF our troops. What / do believe, and
have repeatedly announced, is that we
should at once declare our purpose in
u~nequiVocai terms, so positive that the
F1lipinos cannot doubt IT, to grant them
full n complete independence the
moment they have established a sta
bic government. / believe if we should
make such an announcement right now
the war would cease In a very short
time, and our troops could withdraw
without laying down their arms in the
face of the enemy. Furthermore, l be-
IleVe IL we had come out with such. an
announcement in the beginning Of the
war, the war would never have &C.
Cured"
This is in fiat contradiction Of the
violent, discriminating, conquest idea
Of Mckinley n his gang. There is
no imperialism in the Bryan idea
granting them full and complete in
dependence" and the idea of conquest,
of expansion, of mad imperialism is
not in it remotely. Ex-Speak-
er Tom Reed "solemnly believes
that the country has entered upon a
dangerous enterprise in the far east:
that the outcome of he war did not
necessarily entail the bloody program
me enacted and being enacted by Otis,
backed by Mckinley, and tina what
might have been a glorious page of our
national history has been botched and
drabbled and crimsoned by military
plumbers and gross misconceptions OF
national duty by the civil authorities"
Let the principles of the Constitution
of the United States and the Declara-
ton Of American Independence be ap-
piled in utmost good faith to the Fill
pinos.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20

We copy elsewhere under the state
Press heading an extract from a let
ter of travel by a Presbyterian minis
ter of North Carolina. 1t is signed
Rambler" and is in the last Charlotte
Presbyterian Standard. He is observ-
ant, thoughtful and broad-minded.
What he says of the noble University
of North Carolina is in stirling O n
trast with some of the writer's who
have nothing but censure and COM
plant Of the oldest and greatest Of
North Carolina schools. What Ram
bier" says is creditable to his public
spirit, sense of proportion, c%atholicity
of view and general good sense. Read
what he says.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20

To accommodate those who are par
tial to the use of atomiZers in apply
ing liquids into the nasal passages for
catarrhal troubles, the proprietors pre-
pare Ely's Liquid Cream Balm. Price
including the spraying tube is rs
cents. Druggists or by mail. The liquid
embodies the medicinal properties of
the solid preparation. Cream Balm is
quickly absorbed by the membrane and
does not dry up the secretions but
changes them to a natural and healthy
character. Ely Brothers, Sc Warren
street, New York.