The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-24

Marion Butler and Jeter Pritchard
are 50 much concerned about the ig-
norant white man that they want to
perpe1uate a system that VIII enable
the negro 10 rule him in the eastern
part Of the State.-Tarboro SoutherneT.
A college student has Just died IN
Missouri from injuries received In a
foot bail game. but II may be that he
Is partly responsible. A man who Is
not in fit physical condition 20 fight a
bear should stear clear or foot ball
Durham Herald.
II am tired Of this modern shake
hand religion" said the venerable Rev.
Z. NJ Jordan, az the Baptist Taber-
nac2e q few nights ago Il believe in
the oid-fashioned contrsion OF sin.
genuine repentance. and regeneration
through the blood OF Jesus" There
were many anens-some Of them aud
ibae-ln the congregadon.-Ra1eigh
News and Observer.
The reduction OF the strawberry acre
age is nearly fifty per cent. in Tennes-
see, Missouri and Arkansas; the adj
vent OF an efficient refrigerator car
company and a lower freight rate. are
a trio Of blessings that viii aid in max
ing the berry season OF 1900 n of the
most profitable for ysars-ML Olive
Advertiser.
It certainly seems strange for repub-
leans 10 be threatening TO d~isfanchise
illiterate whlte men, because the demo-
Gratis Will d~isfranchise illiterate negroes.
Democrats think that an illterate white
man is better than an Eliterate negro,
but he republicans and their allies
seem TO think observation-disclosures
Record.
When we remember that the repub-
loan nrr - Noah rn~lg4~4 Nnynf
four negro voters for every white voter
in their ranks, it is easy to decide just
how sincere their leaders are in declar-
ing that they oppose the constitution
al amendment because they fear it will
disfranchise white men.-Hickory
Democrat.
DR.. J.. D.. Hufham, greatly respected
and beloved by the people of North
Carolina, has still more endeared HIM
self to all right-thinking people be-
cause of his open statements in re-
gard to the cruel management Of the
States prison. While we rejoice at
DR. Hufham's stand, we are sorry that
the editor of the great Baptist paper,
the Biblical Recorder, has seen proper
to rather vindicate the cruel TRAIT
ment accorded convicts by one Lewis
Summerell, a penitentiary supervisor.
-Warrenton Record.
VII. d. u LduS llIS hOuSS, Olt vi IIlC
best farmers in the state, was talking
with the Reflector about the Tarboro
Southerner and Raleigh Post recently
saying that with the price of cotton at
5 cents it could be raised at a profit.
He says such talk is all nonsense, as
any intelligent farmer Well knows.
Gwen at the present price there is no
profit in the crop worth speaking of.
1t takes one-fourth of the crop to pay
for picking out and ginning, to say
nothing of the cost OF fertilizers n
labor. Mr.. Laughinghouse says If a
man with his own family performs all
the labor in cultivating his crop he may
possibly come out a little ahead, but
il the labor has to be hired there is no
profit. in it.-Greenville Reflector.
The friends of the university have
been disappointed in the result of the
Northern tour of the university ball
team. The Tar Heel explains that Car
DINA has been peculiarly unfortunate
in the matter of injured players this
season" Thai explains it all. We are
also told that they win be liable to get
in fine fettle" to show the Georgians
that the southern champions" still
lead. Nearly all the college teams have
suffered injuries to players this year
and, all things considered, it is doubt
full if the game as nov played is worth
the candle. The Durham Herald re-
ports that young Frank Boddie, of Dur
ham, recently suffered commissions as
Trinity.-Raleigh News and Observer.
To say Its nobody's business is
a favorite way people have of dis
posing Of objections made to, some
thing they are doing or contemplate
doing. Sometimes it isn't, and some
times it is. A holiness preacher re-
Gently held forth in Alexander county
and if anybody a objected he would
have thought and perhaps said that
he had a right to hold his meetings
and preach the Gospel and it was no
body's business except his w and
that of those who went to hear him.
But two sisters went crazy under his
~ministrations, and The Statesville
Landmark Of yesterday says that one
OF them has just been k to h
State Hospital at Morganton, and
so this Alexander county meeting be-
comes the business Of everybody in
North Observation-Disclosures Observer.
Our careful correspondent at the
Federal capital tells us that II Is true
that the administration cable has ac-
tually come to closequarters with dts
project of ~dragooning congress into
adopting a course from which IL will
be difficult il not impossible to recede.
That is always the method OF %tyrants.
They play for a situation which APP
peals to the patriotism of the people,
and wan is the first step towards pro-
ducing it AS we said six months g
the coming session of congress will
witness the beginning of the struggle
which is destined finally to change our
form OF governmental the end OF II.
there is but one alternative: Ii will be
a centralized empire, or 1t WIFI be a
reformed confederacy, governed, ia
~tionally, by a single legislative chamber
with an executive cabinet subject to
it by ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ObSer-