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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-04
THE SEMI-WEEKLY MESSENGER: to- sDAY, APRIL 4. 1871.

haps by some earnest, dominant idea"
that will give life and melody TO his
and possibly make something
he may write immortal. "Poet-Lore"
says that all the great English poets
"of the last hundred years have allied
themselves to some one dominant idea
that has made a new thought world Of
their poetry" 1t then cites to prove
this statement what It calls 1.-THE great
est of them a1l"-Wordsworth, Tenny-
son and Browning. But the classify
ing might well be objected to, when
Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats
are omitted. We are gratiied to see
so scholarly, cultured an authority re-
garding two southern poets SO appre-
ciatively. 1t incidentally refers il this
wise-"For those liner Intangible eff
fects Of poetry which lift the elect TO
the rose of the blessed, We urn to Poe
annd Lanier." While quoting some
thing at random we will mention that
this bile Quarterly" thinks that Wal
ter Bagehot," who with perhaps the
keenest ~ most discriminating lite
rary taste Of the century was yet an
active politician, reformer and philan-
thropist."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-04
Blood

reaches all ~deep-seated cases which
other remedies have no effect upon. II
is the only blood remedy guaranteed
purely vegetable, and contains no pot
ash, mercury, or other mineral.
Books mailed free to any address b.
Swift Specific Co.. Atlanta, GA.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-04

Professor Edwin Markham, Of Cali
fornia, lately published a poem of much
spirit and intensity in The San Fran
cisco Examiner. 1t is on 1.-THE Man
With the Hoe" and catching Kipling's
spirit, he thinks Of the great burdens
being added in our land-military, Off
cial and commercial, thus affecting and
bowling the back of the man nearest
the soil" We can give only a small
part:
Bowed by the weight of centuries he
Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground,
The emptiness of ages on his face,
And on his back the burden of the
world.
Is lis the Thing the Lord rod made
and gave
To nave dominion over sea and land;
To trace the stars and search the heav-
ems for power;
To feel the passion of Eternity?
Is this the Dream He dreamed who
shaped the suns
And pillared the blue armament with
light?
Down all the stretch of He'll to its last
gulf
There is no shape more terrible han
this
More tongued with censure of the
worlds blind greed
More filled with signs and portents for
the soul
More fraught with menace to the uni
verse.
What CULTS between him and the sera-
phim!
Slave of the wheel of labor, what to him
Are Plato and the swing Of Pleisades?
What the long reaches Of the peaks
of song,
The rift of dawn, the reddening Of the
rOSe?'
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-04
TO Cure a Cold IA One DAY.

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money if it
fails to cure. 25c. The genuine has L.
B. O.. on each tablet.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-04

The unsavory penitentiary mess is
p~estilential and malodorous. The more
it IS stirred the more ~unbearable the
stencil. Hand around and scatter wide
the disinfectants.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-04
RELIGIOUS EDITORIALS FOR
SUNDAY

Let the word of Christ dwell in you
richly in all wisdom. Colossians iii, 16.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-04

will insure the largest yield.
We will send Free. upon application.
pamphlets that Will interest every cotton
planter in the South.
CERTAIN KALI WORKS,
Oh Nassau ST., Ne~ York
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-04

c1ded imprOVeInent was the result, and d1tef
he had akena dozen bottles. no one who knew
of his former dreadful condition would have
recognized him.. All the sores on his body
have healed, his skin is perfectly clear and
smooth, and he has been restored to perfect
health. MRS. S. s. MABRY.
$50 Elm St., Macon, Ga.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-04

For real blood troubles it is a waste
of time to expect a cure from the doc
tors. Blood diseases are beyond their
skill. Swift's Specific,
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1899-12-26
slOn KEMARn sIln.

The read OF this paper will he pleased TO learn
that there is at least one dreaded disease that
science has been able 10 cure In all It's stages, and
that Is Catarrh Halls Catarrh Cure Is the only
positive cure known TO the medical IAeTnity. Ca
iaTrh being constitutional disease, requires
stitutional tTeatn.nt. Halls Catarrh Cure is tax
en- Internally. acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces OF the system. thereby destroy my
the foundation OF the disease, and giving the pa
tient strength by building up the constitution and
assisting nature In doing It's work. The pr0prie-
tors have much faith Ia It's curative powers, that
they oner Que Hundred Dollars Tor any case that
Il fails 20 cure. send Tor list Of testimonials
Address H. }. CHENEY A o., Toledo, q.
sold by Druggists, zoe
Halls Family FILLS are the best.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1899-12-26
"Mary Jane" wants TO know how TO

"Mary Jane" wants TO know how To
train COW. The best way TO train
COW, Miss Mary Jane, is To accustom
her TO grazing on a railroad track
Glasgow Times. And the COW coroner,
especially on the Knoxville division Of
the l.. Il N, thinks that Judging from
the number killed, great many COW
owners train their cows thu way.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1899-12-26

Al Asmali, a tourist resort 90 the
Gulf of Salerno, Italy, an enormous
rock slid into the sea, carrying down
two hotels, a monastery and several
villas, crushing four vessels and their
crews and burying 10 people 10 the
de bris.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1899-12-26

Mrs Frances Beauchamp, president
of the Kentucky w. g. T. u. says az
anti-clgarette bill will be- presented to
the coming Legislature, and every eff
fort will be made to pass IL. The bill
will conform TO the Tennessee law on
that subject, which has recently been
held constitutional.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1899-12-26
L MrIHT nE RNR

"Awful anxiety was felt foI the widow OF the
widow OF the brave General Burnham of Machias,
Me, when the doctors said she could not live till
morning writes Mrs. > II. Lincoln, who attended
her that fearful night IAN thought she must
soon die from Pneumonia, bat she legged for Dr.
Kings New Discovery, saying II had more than
once saved her life and had cured her Of C0nsump-
ton. After three small doses she slept easily all
night, aud Its further use completely cured her y
THIS marvellous medicine Is guaranteed 10 cure all
Throat, Chest ard Lung Diseases. only 80 cents
aud 81. Trim boltles lree az renny's Drug store.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1899-12-26

A Negro soldier of the 9th cavalry
stationed at Fort Wingate, N. NJ, was
married by telephone and telegraph
Friday to Lizzie Simmons, Of Winches-
ter. Ky. A magistrate at Wingate. a
chaplain at Houston. Texas and a
preacher at Winchester performed the
ceremony. The telegraph and tele-
phone tolls amounted TO S25.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1899-12-26
TO AMBITIOUS YOUNG MEN,

Write Immediately TO Wilbur smith, for %
years President OF the Commercial College OF Ken.
lucky University. Lexington, Ky, for circulars of
this responsible and influential college. Book.
Keeping, Shorthand aud Typswnting and Teleg
raphy taught Graduates successful In order
that YOUR mail reach this college address only
WILBUR n. SMITH, Lexington, Ky.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1899-12-26

The Pennsylvania railroad will pen
sion $50 employees, who have reached
the age OF 70 years, on Jan. l. There
after all employees who have reached
the age of 10 will be pensioned. No
new employee is to be taken into the
service OF the company over the age Of
35 years.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1899-12-26

tice, demands that contests shall oe
made by every candidate on The demo
cratic ticket for the respective offices
10 which they we're nominated. The
committees feel that IL Is proper that
they should, In a concise form, state
the grounds upon which they base their
action.
The State board OF election commits
sioners, at its recent session, issued GER
tifcates OF election TO all OF the repuo-
lican candidates for the State offices,
but the board expressly declared la the
opinion that IL rendered that u acted
simply as a cauvassing board, without
power or authority, as " construed the
law, To inquire into the legality or va
lldity OF any contested votes Tue
board went further and In substance
expressed the opinion that, II clothed
with the authority 10 go behind the re-
turns and determine the matters In con
tention, the certificates OF election
would not have been Issued 10 the par
ties who received them.
We feel that Ia the light Of the action
OF this board the democratic party can
not do less than carry Its contention To
the tribunals created by law for ITS de-
termination.
The grounds upon which this contest
IL based consist OF the protest against
the use OF tissue ballots Ia many OF the
overwhelming republican counties oil
the State. The use OF these ballots Il
not only In violation Of the letter OF the
law. but IL In utter and open defiance
OF the spirit OF the Law. and the use of
these ballots furnishes, not prima facie,
but conclusive evidence of purposed
fraud.
Another ground Of contest Is because
OF the plain violation aud defiance OF
the law by the late republican governor
OF the State, who whilst actively en-
gagged In the making Of stump speeches
and the prosecution OF partisan polit-
icsl canvass, ordered out the military.
aud, 10 violation OF both Law aud prece-
dent, assumed personal command OF the
troops Ia the metropolis OF the State.
parading the streets Oh iouie'Ale u"
the day OF the election with HE soldiers
and Calling guns, Invading the voting
booths and forcing into them, against
'ae p'o'es " '"e
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"au '""' w, - - -,
w ."0
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The Issuance OF tue eertinca'es "
election To Tue republican eana'ua'es 10
contested upon the iur'ner Rrounu .na'
ooth GUERRA anu ''a'e J'use' '
ou' VI '"" 80
every p'o"p'."s -,
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Another grodnd Is the use 10 Tue in'
'ercs' VI '"o 'ep'o 80 pan,,,hn,ad
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oy tue must po"e'''' ' -.
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although the most hea'eu political ca'n'
palgn that ever occurred III 'he |o'n-
monwealth precedeu the rece". e'ee-
ton, yen over io'ooo legally regis'ereo
democratic voters 'a'ied 10 Vo'e IN tue
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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-29

son presupposes citizenship and citi-
zens The allegiance of American citi-
zens is due. not to the rulers, not to
the government, but to the United
States. In England it is treason to
compass the death of the king; in
Germany and other European countries
through ''lese majestic" and by many
other processes you can commit trea-
son and not half try. But in this re-
public treason is a well-defined crime,
and congress fixed death by hanging as
the punishment for it.
Eminent constitutional authority
says: 1.-THE provisions of the constitu-
ton taken together require an overt, or
open. act of levying war, or an open
act of adherence to the nations enc
mics. giving them aid and comfort;
without one or the other there can be
no treason. No mere words can, there
fore, amount to treason; no mere con-
spring, confederating, planning, can
make men traitors, for none of these
acts are overt
This gossip about the proposed prose-
cution of men who haven't pulled for
the administration in the Philippine pol
icy is too ridiculous for serious atten-
ton. Treason against the presidents
policy, indeed! What is the admins
tration's policy? 1t has been along all
sorts of lines and has run in every direc-
ton, now here. now there. On the floor
Of the federal senate men who are as
sumed to be "close friends of the ad-
ministration' have openly disputed one
another's definition of this policy, few
of them agree about it. and with none
of them is it the same this week that it
was last month.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-29
NO INTEREST IN HIS.

Thank God, I've got no richest Jest
heard a Teller say
He wuz payin' thirty dollars in intereit
ever day.
Now. amt that talk amazin'? Jest tn TX
of it. to pay
That much in that ere awful unnt erestin'
way!
Thank God I've got no riches; m of the
ploddin' kind;
The patch is on my britches, but the
peace is in my mind!
I'm satisfied in winter time, I has the
chilis in May,
But I don't pay thirty dollars out IN in
terest ever day
Thank God, I'm poor and mum 1le, an in
the loWly rank:
Amt never scraped acquaintance with
the man that runs the bank,
The other chap, I reckon, thinks he's
happy on the way;
But he's payin' thirty dollars out in in
terest ever day.
Atlanta Constitution.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-29
Lynching and Its Defenders.

~ NE reason why lynching is on
the increase in the South is
attributable to the fact that the
southern press, generally speaking,
palliates the crime. The Atlanta Con-
stitution, a recognized leader of south
ern opinion, bestowed no more than
a gentle criticism upon the fiends who
burned the negro Hose at the stake
1t besought people at a distance from
the scene to remember the extenuating
circumstances-as if there could be
any extenuating circumstances to an
outrage so demoniacal.
The Houston Post another southern
newspaper of dignity and character,
talks of the Lake City lynching in this
extraordinary strain: Baker was not
only negro, but an offensive and med
dlesome one. He was a newcomer in
the neighborhOOd and that fact alone
should have led the officials at Wash
ington to withhold from him the ap-
pointment to an office the duties of
which would throw him into close re-
lations with the community. A negro,
an agitator in race politics and a COM
parative stranger. it was not singular
that his appointment aroused the in
dignation of the community. To reck-
lessly and extensively disregard the set
tied race distinctions and, over the pro-
test of the patrons of the office, force
upon the dominant white element an
obnoxious postmaster was not only a
mistake by the president but it was a
deliberate invitation to evil passions
and bitter prejudices to do their worst
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-29
Twain Made One in Rhyme.

From the New York Herald.
Wild and romantic as any highland
legend or border story is the account
of the first contract marriage in the
interior of Alaska, as narrated by
Windy Jim" Dodson, who was present
and witnessed the unique ceremony.
1t was on the banks of the Dali river,
small stream which flows into the
Yukon near Fort Hamlin. A young
man, ellis by name, accompanied by
Aggie Dalton, a charming maiden with
whom he was in love, had set out from
the mouth of Dali river to go across
the mountainous divide into the Koyul
kuk valley. AS they started UP the Dali
they met DodsOn and in the course of
conversation it developed that the
young people were anxious to get mar
ried, but in that wilderness there was
small chance of finding either priest or
magistrate to perform the ceremony.
| II know man who can tie the knot"
| said Dodson, land he lives only few
| miles from here. His name is Joe Du-
rant, but everybody knows him by the
nickname of French joe"
| To yearning hearts and youthful Wig
or few miles in that vast solitude was
as nothing, and they were soon at Du-
rants place. Dodson went with them
| as guide and witness. The spot was
| one just fit for such romantic nuptials.
1t was on a wild, mountainous slope,
| by the side of a clear lake, and under
| the shelter of a friendly tree whose
evergreen branches defied the chill No
| vember winds.
| Durant gladly agreed to perform the
| pleasant task, but as he had no law
| form or church rituals at hand, he de-
vised a form of his own, and put it into
rude rhyme, having the bride and
| groom each repeat four lines after him.
The bride repeated the following:
'"Ten miles from the Yukon on the
| banks of this lake
| For partner to Koyukuk ellis I take.
We have no preacher, we have no
ring:
That makes no difference; it's the
same old thing
The grooms part was as follows:
Il swear by my sled pole under this
tree,
husband to Aggie I always will be.
I'll love and protect her, this maiden
so frail,
From the sour-dough toughs on the
Koyukuk trail"
Durant then tied the knot as follows:
For two dollars each in chechaco
money
I unite this couple in matrimony
He is rancher and she Is a teacher
I'll do up the job as well as preacher
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-29

The crime was unjustifiable and bru
tai, but the responsibility for it does
not rest alone upon the men who ac-
tually perpetrated it. In any investi-
cation of the killing the record will be
incomplete that does not contain evil
dence which will show how sorely the
prisoners patience was tried and how
guilty were the high authorities that
tried it and aroused to an uncontrola-
BILE pitch the passions of the whites
who saw themselves insulted and
abused by such an appointment"
The effect of talk like that is dis
tnctly to encourage lynching. The
Post virtually pats the Lake City fiends
on the back and tells them they are
good fellows; a little too headstrong,
perhaps, but still men who did right in
avenging an insult. AS long as this
spirit prevails in the South, as long
as the southern press in the slightest
degree condones or excuses the hide
Gus crime, lynchngs of negroes on the
smallest pretext win increase in fire.
quency. Violence begets violence and
in localities where they are strong the
negroes will undoubtedly pursue pol
icy of retaliation. 1t is a deplora BILE
condition.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-29
All Sorts.

Norway has voted sl2, $4,000 a year for
four years for the extension of the Nor
wegian railway system
Germany publishes one periodical per
H. 102 of population. Austria has one pa
per to every 72.29O persons.
Canada is building 10 big steel wheat
ships of $4,000 bushels capacity to trav-
erse her 1S-foot canals to tidewater
Londons record Of deaths by violence
was 3,514 last year being 124 above the
average of the preceding 10 years
Kaiser Wilhelm has decided that Rich
ard Wagner's statue shall stand by the
side of the Goldfish pond in the Berlin
thiergarten. so
Another Indian congress is to be a fea-
ture of this years Omaha exposition. It
will be more extensive than that of last
year.
Sportsmen are bagging wild ducks on
the Potomac. There are numerous flocks
of mallards and whistle wings on the
river again.
Berlin Is to have a special institute for
the study of hygiene as applied to the
tropics. Professor Koch has drawn up
a plan for it.
The fruit growers of Caroline county,
Md, are expecting a big crop of straw
berries and are laying in supply of
baskets and crates
of civilized government is SIS per year
to the president of the republic of An
DORA, in the Pyrenees.
After July l the Lake Front park in
Chicago will be called U. S. Grant park
The change is made by state law, en-
acted at the request of the G. A. r.
More than 100 taverns in the Hart2
mountains of Germany have agreed tc
board students of high schools and uni
versities at specially reduced rates.
French pathological journal estimates
| that of the $50 different languages spoken
| on the globe 50 are in use in Europe, II.
| in Africa, 1913 in Asia, All in America anG
| 1T in Oceanica.
In the region of Lahognat in the Sa
| hara. unusual transforms prevailed las
| month. Trees were uprooted and house:
| demolished. The natives were greatly ter
| rified at the unaccustomed phenome
| non.
| Only 1900 pictures have been accepted
| for this years Paris salon. the average
| for years past having been more thar
| 1000. The paintings sent in by artists wh'
| are hors concours and not subject to eX
animation bring the number up to 1924.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-29
A TICKLE GIRL.
She Gavo an Earring to Each of Two
Soldiers.

Soldiers.
From the Washington Post.
| don't like to be cynical about my
own sex, but there are times when the
duplicity of certain ones among them
makes me quite lose faith in all women.
A girl, pair of earrings and two young
army men are the dramatis personae
of the tale l am about to unfold. The
girl lives here in Washington. The men
are here for the time being, and since
week ago Friday I don't know where
the earrings are. The girl spent a part
of the summer in a city near which
troops We're encamped, and part of the
summer she spent at a summer resort
where veterans of the Spanish war
came to recuperate. In this way she
met both the men in the tale, but she
did not know that either of them would
be in Washington this winter, nor that
they knew each other. The soldier she
met in camp gave her several trinkets,
buttons, buckles, hat pins and inciden-
tally, his heart 1t may have been the
buttons, it may have been the heart,
and it may have been the dance music,
but whatever was the cause of it, the
girl fingered a moment or two after a
ball with the young soldier, and being
manifestly much touched by his devo-
ton, gave him one of her earrings. He
was to have it mounted and wear it as
a scarfpin which things he did Chance
brought him to Washington after his
company was mustered out, and here
he met an old friend-the soldier who
had spent the weeks of his GONZALES
cence at the summer resort / spoke of.
The two friends stopped short in the
midst of hand shake to glare at each
others necktie.
why, yousve got my scarfpin on
they gasped simultaneously.
After that the tale was told and each
young man CRASHED his teeth as he
thought of the buttons, the buckles, the
hat pins and, incidentally, the heart.
Neither man wears a scarfpin made of
an earring now. One man sent his pin
back to the girl. The other man, how
ever, thirsted for revenge. He gave
his pin to her bosom friend.